Jquery qtip ajax issue - php

Question

I am trying to post the value of an input box (In this case a imdb link) to my imdbgrabber.php page and have it return the info of that movie into a qtip box.
EDIT: View here http://movieo.no-ip.org/ Hover the images and you will see the error.
Everything works fine until i try and post the variable to the imdbgrabber page. This is the code.
Javascript:
var link = $("#link").val();
var imdbLink = 'link='+ link;
$(".moviebox").qtip({
style: { name: 'cream' },
content: {
method: 'GET',
data: imdbLink,
url: '/includes/imdbgrabber.php',
text: '<img class="throbber" src="/images/loading.gif" alt="Loading..." />'
},
position: {
corner: {
target: 'bottomright',
tooltip: 'bottomleft'
}
}
});
HTML:
<!--start moviebox-->
<div class="moviebox">
<a href="#">
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mySxtRcQIag/S6deHcoChaI/AAAAAAAAObc/Z1Xg3aB_wkU/s200/rising_sun.jpg" />
<form method="get" action="">
<input type="text" name="link" id="link" style="display:none" value="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882"/>
</form>
</a>
</div>
<!--end moviebox-->
and finally the php:
<?php
$url=$_GET['link'];
//$url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/';
//get the page content
$imdb_content = get_data($url);
//parse for product name
$name = get_match('/<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU',$imdb_content);
$director = strip_tags(get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Director:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content));
$plot = get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Plot:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
$release_date = get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Release Date:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
$mpaa = get_match('/<a href="\/mpaa">MPAA<\/a>:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
$run_time = get_match('/Runtime:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
$rating = get_match('/<div class="starbar-meta">(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
////build content
//$content = '<h2>Film</h2><p>'.$name.'</p>'
// . '<h2>Director</h2><p>'.$director.'</p>'
// . '<h2>Plot</h2><p>'.substr($plot,0,strpos($plot,'<a')).'</p>'
// . '<h2>Release Date</h2><p>'.substr($release_date,0,strpos($release_date,'<a')).'</p>'
// . '<h2>MPAA</h2><p>'.$mpaa.'</p>'
// . '<h2>Run Time</h2><p>'.$run_time.'</p>'
// . '<h2>Full Details</h2><p>'.$url.'</p>';
//gets the match content
function get_match($regex,$content)
{
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
//gets the data from a URL
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
?>
<!--start infobox-->
<div class="info">
<span>
<?php echo '<strong>'.$name.'</strong>' ?>
</span>
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mySxtRcQIag/S6deHcoChaI/AAAAAAAAObc/Z1Xg3aB_wkU/s200/rising_sun.jpg" />
<div class="plot">
<?php echo ''.substr($plot,0,strpos($plot,'<a')).'</div>' ?>
</div>
<div class="runtime">
<?php echo'<strong>Run Time</strong><br />'.$run_time.'</div>' ?>
</div>
<div class="releasedate">
<?php echo '<strong>Release Date</strong><br />'.substr($release_date,0,strpos($release_date,'<a')).'</div>' ?>
</div>
<div class="director">
<?php echo '<strong>Director</strong><br />'.$director.'' ?>
</div>
<div class="rating">
<?php echo '<strong>Rating</strong><br />'.$rating.'' ?>
</div>
</div>
<!--end infobox-->
I am sure it is a simple mistake somewhere but after hours of looking i thought i would ask the experts.

Answer 1

According to the documentation, the data for qtip when fetching via AJAX needs to be key-value pairs. Try this:
var link = $("#link").val();
var imdbLink = { "link" : link }; // note change to data...
$(".moviebox").qtip({
style: { name: 'cream' },
content: {
method: 'GET',
data: imdbLink, // you could make this { "link" : link }
url: '/includes/imdbgrabber.php',
text: '<img class="throbber" src="/images/loading.gif" alt="Loading..." />'
},
position: {
corner: {
target: 'bottomright',
tooltip: 'bottomleft'
}
}
});
Also it appears that your get_match routine is improperly indexing into the matches array. Arrays are zero-based, so the first match is the match at index 0, not one. In fact, you can only ever have a single match given your regular expressions since you only have one grouping expression.
Try changing it to this:
//gets the match content
function get_match($regex,$content)
{
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);
return $matches[0];
}