Family Movies

These films come from The Movie Database (TMDB). Here is the real PHP I wrote to fetch and filter them.

MovieController::__construct()

public function __construct()
{
    $this->apiUrl = config('tmdb.api_url');
    $this->apiToken = config('tmdb.api_token');
}

MovieController::fetchMovies()

private function fetchMovies($page = 1, $excludedWords = [])
{
    $response = Http::withToken($this->apiToken)
        ->get("{$this->apiUrl}/discover/movie", [
            'language' => 'en-US',
            'page' => $page,
            'with_genres' => '10751'
        ]);

    $movies = $response->json();

    // Filter out movies containing any of the excluded words
    $filtered = array_filter($movies['results'] ?? [], function ($movie) use ($excludedWords) {
        $title = strtolower($movie['title'] ?? $movie['name'] ?? '');
        foreach ($excludedWords as $word) {
            if (strpos($title, strtolower($word)) !== false) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    });

    // Pagination logic
    $moviesPerPage = 8;
    $totalMovies = count($filtered);
    $startIndex = ($page - 1) * $moviesPerPage;

    return array_slice($filtered, $startIndex, $moviesPerPage);
}

MovieController::fetchChristianMovies()

private function fetchChristianMovies($page = 1)
{
    $response = Http::withToken($this->apiToken)
        ->get("{$this->apiUrl}/list/8938", [
            'language' => 'en-US',
            'page' => $page
        ]);

    return $response->json();
}

MovieController::fetchRecommendations()

private function fetchRecommendations($id)
{
    $response = Http::withToken($this->apiToken)
        ->get("{$this->apiUrl}/movie/{$id}/recommendations");

    return $response->json();
}