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<search function="acine">
  <name>Allocine.com</name>
  <description>
    Search <i>the</i> french site about movies, stars, theaters schedules, critics, trailers, etc...<br/>
    <div class="helpboxDescLabels">Switches:</div>
    <table class="helpboxDescTable">
      <tr><td colspan="3">Narrow your search to...</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/place</td><td> - </td><td>movies playing near your place (name or zip code)</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/zip:[number]</td><td> - </td><td>movies playing near your zip code (direct search)<br/>
                                                optional : <i>number</i> forces to find <i>number</i> theaters</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/bywith</td><td> - </td><td>movies by its director or one of its actor</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/movie</td><td> - </td><td>informations on a movie (part or whole of the name)</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/theater</td><td> - </td><td>what's playing in a theater (theater or city name)</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/news</td><td> - </td><td>latest news about somebody, a movie, a company</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/bio</td><td> - </td><td>the biography of a celebrity</td></tr>
      <tr><td>/video</td><td> - </td><td>video sources (trailers, extracts, making ofs...)</td></tr>
    </table>
    <div class="helpboxDescLabels">Examples:</div>
    <table class="helpboxDescTable">
      <tr><td>acine meilleurs copains</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine marseille /place</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine 13001 /zip:30</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine jean-pierre melville /bywith</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine meilleurs copains /movie</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine le grand rex /theater</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine cruise /news</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine adjani /bio</td></tr>
      <tr><td>acine shrek /video</td></tr>
    </table>
  </description>
  <category>Entertainment</category>
  <link>http://www.allocine.com/</link>
  <contributor>MLL</contributor>


  <form name="acinef_general"
        action="http://www.allocine.com/recherche/default.html"
        method="get">
    <input type="hidden" name="motcle" value=""/>
  </form>


  <form name="acinef_rubrique"
        action="http://www.allocine.com/recherche/rubrique.html"
        method="get">
    <!-- they seem to have changed their parameter name <input type="hidden" name="type" value=""/> -->
    <input type="hidden" name="typerecherche" value=""/>
    <input type="hidden" name="motcle" value=""/>
  </form>


  <form name="acinef_salleproche"
        action="http://www.allocine.com/seance/salleproche.html"
        method="get">
    <input type="hidden" name="codepostal" value=""/>
    <input type="hidden" name="nb" value=""/>
  </form>


  <script><![CDATA[
    function acine(q)
    {
      if( nullArgs( "acine", q ) ) return false;

      var args = parseArgs(q, "place, bywith, movie, theater, news, bio, video, zip");
      var mode, typerech="0";

      //eliminate cases where you got more than 1 switch
      if( args.switches.length > 1 )
      {
        nullArgs( "acine", "?" );
        return false;
      }

      //establish the mode the search will run in.
      if( args.switches.length == 1 ) mode = args.switches[0].name;

      //set some parameters and eliminate the unknown switch case
      switch( mode )
      {
        /* they seem to have changed their parameter name
        case "place": document.acinef.type.value = "3"; break;
        case "bywith": document.acinef.type.value = "2"; break;
        case "theater": document.acinef.type.value = "9"; break;
        case "news": document.acinef.type.value = "4"; break;
        case "bio": document.acinef.type.value = "7"; break;
        */
        case "place": typerech = "9"; break;
        case "bywith": typerech = "4"; break;
        case "movie" : typerech = "3"; break;
        case "theater": typerech = "8"; break;
        case "news": typerech = "12"; break;
        case "bio": typerech = "10"; break;
        case "video": typerech = "7"; break;

        case "zip": break;

        default:
          if( mode )
          {
            nullArgs("acine","?");
            return false;
          }
          break;
      }

      //launch the search
      if ( typerech != "0" )
      {
        document.acinef_rubrique.motcle.value = args.q;
        document.acinef_rubrique.typerecherche.value = typerech;
        submitForm(acinef_rubrique);
      }
      else if ( mode == "zip" )
      {
        document.acinef_salleproche.codepostal.value = args.q;
        document.acinef_salleproche.nb.value = args.switch_val["zip"];
        submitForm(acinef_salleproche);
      }
      else
      {
        document.acinef_general.motcle.value = args.q;
        submitForm(acinef_general);
      }
    }
  ]]></script>

  <copyright>
    Copyright (c) 2002 David Bau
    Distributed under the terms of the
    GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt)
  </copyright>
</search>