Deprecated This library was implemented to work with the TVDB API V1.
It is now deprecated so I suggest you to find another library that implements the new API like https://github.com/adrenth/thetvdb2
Based on the well known php library phptvdb (available on http://code.google.com/p/phptvdb/), this version has been completely refactored to offer more features from the tvdb api (available on http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API) by using PHP 5.3 namespaces, very useful to import in a bigger project like Symfony 2 for example.
The Client implements almost all api functions from thetvdb excepted the download in ZIP format
use Moinax\TvDb\Client;
$apiKey = 'YOURAPIKEY';
$tvdb = new Client("http://thetvdb.com", $apiKey);
$tvdb->getSerie(75710);
To save bandwidth, reduce latency, or both of two, you can use a Http Client with caching features. The HTTP client use the If-Modified-Since header to fetch full content only if resource was modified. This saves bandwidth. The HTTP client also use a time to live parameter to completly avoid making request if resource was fresh enough. This reduce latency.
<?php
use Moinax\TvDb\Http\Cache\FilesystemCache;
use Moinax\TvDb\Http\CacheClient;
use Moinax\TvDb\Client;
$ttl = 600; # how long things should get cached, in seconds.
$apiKey = 'YOURAPIKEY';
$cache = new FilesystemCache(__DIR__ . '/cache');
$httpClient = new CacheClient($cache, $ttl);
$tvdb = new Client("http://thetvdb.com", $apiKey);
$tvdb->setHttpClient($httpClient);
$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //This request will fetch the resource online.
$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //Cache content is fresh enough. We don't make any request.
sleep(600);
$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //The content is not fresh enough. We make a request with
//the If-Modified-Since header. The server respond 304 Not
//modified, so we load content from the cache.
Use the index.php to test the Api Rename the settings.php.dist in settings.php if you wan to test and enter your own API key provided by http://thetvdb.com
This version is quite stable and used in production on http://nextepisode.tv