Count marvel digital comics
Date Written: 11/30/09
Last Updated: 9/4/10
first go to the
marvel digital comics page, highlight and copy everything on the page (
ctrl a then
ctrl c) and plug it into the page form and hit submit and the number of digital comics available will be displayed.
<?php
$string=$_POST['data'];
if ($string !=""){
$string=str_replace(" ","",$string);
$string=str_replace("issues)","issue)",$string);
preg_match_all("/\((.*?)issue\)/",$string,$storage);
$string=array_sum($storage[1]);
}
?>
<form action=<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> method="POST">
<textarea rows=45 cols=150 name="data"><?php print $string; ?></textarea>
<br><input type='submit' name="queryButton" value="Submit">
</form>
You can try the program out
here.
8508 as of
9/4/10.
8420 as of
8/12/10.
8323 as of
7/16/10.
8299 as of
7/8/10.
8191 as of
6/11/10.
8147 as of
5/29/10.
8117 as of
5/20/10.
8073 as of
5/9/10.
8046 as of
5/4/10.
8011 as of
4/26/10.
7979 as of
4/17/10.
7961 as of
4/14/10.
7905 as of
4/8/10.
7900 as of
4/2/10.
7853 as of
3/19/10.
7840 as of
3/16/10.
Note: 437 comics added since yesterday!!
7403 as of
3/15/10.
Note: Another 150+ comic drop since 2 days ago!? That's approximately 130 comics added to the database a month.
7556 as of
3/12/10.
Note: Wow, a 150+ comics drop since last check!
7708 as of
3/1/10.
7697 as of
2/26/10.
7661 as of
2/19/10. 18 comics added since yesterday?
7643 as of
2/18/10.
7599 as of
2/6/10.
Note: Interesting how there were officially no comics released today since it is Saturday and yet 15 more are listed according to the comics counting program.
7584 as of
2/5/10.
7493 as of
2/1/10.
Note: Notice the huge drop in the number of available comics since a week ago? There should be about 7600 now.
7550 as of
1/26/10.
Note: This means that there was a net gain of 6 comics, so there was a random new comic added to the database. Not sure what it would be.
7544 as of
1/25/10.
Note: This means that there was a net gain of 4 comics to the database even though 5 were listed as being added to the database today, meaning that 1 comic somewhere was removed. The removed comics was almost definitely one of the free samples.
7540 as of
1/23/10.
7513 as of
1/15/10.
7456 as of
1/1/10.
7327 as of
11/30/09.
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