Search for similar artists

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/class/artist.class.php b/lib/class/artist.class.php
index f7638b94..e6b5bda9 100644
--- a/lib/class/artist.class.php
+++ b/lib/class/artist.class.php
@@ -145,6 +145,38 @@ class Artist extends database_object {
 		return $results;
 
 	} // get_albums
+	public function get_like() {
+		$result = array();
+		$lastfm_api_key = Config::get('lastfm_api_key');
+
+		$artistsql = "SELECT name FROM artist WHERE id = \"" . $this->id . "\"";
+		$artist_result = Dba::query($artistsql);
+		$r = Dba::fetch_assoc($artist_result);
+		$searchArtist = preg_replace('/ /', '%20', $r['name']);
+
+		$lastsite = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=artist.getsimilar&artist=" . $searchArtist . "&api_key=" . $lastfm_api_key;
+		debug_event('Similar', 'search url : ' . $lastsite, 5);
+		$lastch = curl_init();
+		curl_setopt($lastch, CURLOPT_URL, $lastsite);
+		curl_setopt($lastch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+
+		$lastxml = simplexml_load_string( curl_exec($lastch) );
+		$lastcontent = curl_exec($lastch);
+		$lastxml = simplexml_load_string( $lastcontent );
+
+		foreach( $lastxml->similarartists->children() as $lastchild ) {
+			$check_query = 'SELECT * FROM artist WHERE name = \'' . $lastchild->name . '\'';
+			$check_result = Dba::query($check_query);
+			$row = Dba::fetch_assoc($check_result);
+			if( !is_null($row['id']) ) {
+				$result[] = $row['id'];
+			//      debug_event('Similar', 'row return: ' . $row['id'], 5);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $result;
+
+	} // get_like
 
 	/**
 	 * get_songs