Cineworld film times on Android OS

Posted by on May 8, 2009 Leave a comment (7) Go to comments

Viewing regular websites on mobile phones is not easy, they are too long, too rich and generally not made for small screens. I’ve developed a small page which grabs the film times from Cineworld website and displays them on a mobile friendly page. This is working only for one fixed cinema now. Video after the brake.

This video demonstrates Cineworld website vs my small page on Android OS.

I used PHP, Smarty and Ajax.

PHP fetches the original website and parse the content into the array which is then used by two Smarty templates.

Live page is here.

Cinema selector and geolocation using Google Gears will be added shortly.

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  • Anonymous

    Go to http://www.cineworld.co.uk/syndication/ for XML film times for all cinemas

  • http://www.krzywanski.net/ Artur

    Thanks a lot. It would be much easier to use XML.

  • Chesterfield

    I know this is alot to ask for but could you provide the source code to this? or some example code to get me started? I would love to have something similar working on my website showing film/showtime info for my local cinema (Chesterfield..)

    Any help at all would be great!
    Thanks!

    • http://www.krzywanski.net/ Artur

      Did you look at using those: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/syndication/ ?

      • Chesterfield

        I just wanted to see how you did it using php/smarty/ajax but it doesnt matter, im sure I can figure out how to extract/display from the xml syndication.

        Thanks for the quick reply!

        • http://www.krzywanski.net/ Artur

          I’ll send that to you via email. Please let me know where you will use it and mention my www if possible.

  • Chesterfield

    Thanks, I’ll def make sure I mention you/this site if I do decide to use any of it.