Wanting to create a crowd-sourced movie reviews website

[vincentlee]

Hi there,

I’m wanting to create a movie reviews website that pulls its data from Twitter.
It only needs to be the barebones, but being new to PHP, I’m not sure where to start.
So I’m hoping someone here with experience can help me break it down.

Here’s an image of how I envision it:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18528026/Working/moviereviews.png

The size of the movie title depends on how many people have tweeted about it
The keywords below it are like a tag cloud of those tweets

The page would show the top 10 movies that are showing out here in New Zealand (http://www.flicks.co.nz/top-10) and would automatically accumulate data from Twitter.

If anyone could help in the slightest,
It would be greatly appreciated

Feel free to move this topic if it’s better suited in a different forum.

[ErnieAlex]

Well, you have a site you showed us that lists the 10 movies. You can pull the names of the ten movies from it.
Then, scan twitter for each of these. There is a lot of twitter-reading PHP code on Google. And, we even had one posted here somewhere. Pulling Twitter records is a bit similar to reading a RSS feed.

Do you have anything started as yet? Can you show us some sample code? What part are you stuck on?
Or, are you just collecting ideas at this stage?

I didn’t look at the top ten movies page code to see how hard it would to pull the names, but, should be simple to do. Then, just loop through them. When you poll Twitter, you would receive back a TON of data, but, there
is code to pull out each of the records. You would then have to keep tabs on each Twitt and keep a record of
the words the Twittee gives you. So, that might be hard to do as someone could say a movie is GREAT!, okay
that is simple to keep records on, but, what if they say it is so-so? So-So isn’t really a word. You would have to keep a table of valid comments and add them up so you could keep tract of what is said. If 100 people said the movie was great and 15 said it was slow, display the great… Something like that would work.

If you can’t get started in the code, ask us whatever… We are here to help…