The Unofficial Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 7 Day TV and Radio Listing
The Unofficial Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 7 Day TV and Radio Listing is a online radio and TV listings that uses the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV and Radio feeds provided by backstage.bbc.co.uk. A Java program parses the backstage XML data and inserts it into a mySQL database each day and a PHP based website displays all of the information.
The website displays full 7 day listing for each channel. I f you choose a specific program it display all of the information for that program as well as links to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's information for that program. If it is a movie links to IMDB and Google also appear. Movies also have a simple 5 star ranking system associated with them so that users can rate the movie.
You can add favourite programs so that they are highlighted on the listings.
You can search by keyword, genre, or actor name to find any programmes that match your criteria. The search can also be narrowed down by selecting a specific date or date range and a channel.
There is a basic forum for programmes that allows users to talk to each other about programmes.
When a user starts adding favourites recmmendations will start being generated for them based upon what other people that have the same favourites as you also watch.
Therre are a few things on the site that need to berefined still. The CSS needs a bit of work to be fully compatiable with IE and also for smaller screen resolutions. The advanced search also has a few minor bugs to be ironed out.
In the future I would like to output statistics about the kind of programs that different people like (eg. Favourite programs for men and woman, and also for age renge etc..). I would also like to write a desktop client that uses the favourites data and alerts a user when their favourite program is about to start. I would enhance the forum section to include Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔode and a word censor to hide swear words. I have also toyed with the idea of letting users tag programs and then adding a search option for tags.
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