Get IMDB ID (tt number) from movie title

class IMDBtt{

	function tt($title){
		$t = urlencode($title);
		$content = $this->getSite('http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=' . $t);
		$content = substr($content, strpos($content, 'div id="main"'));
		preg_match('/tt[0-9]{7}/',$content,$matches);
		return reset($matches);
	}

	private function getSite($url){
		$ch = curl_init($url);

		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,1);

		$data = curl_exec($ch);
		curl_close($ch);
		return $data;
	}

}
		

Usage:

$IMDB = new IMDBtt();
$tt = $IMDB->tt('Avatar');
		

Sample link. Forrest Gump