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Using The Google Web APIs With PHP
By: Harish Kamath, (c) Melonfire
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    2002-07-16


    Table of Contents:
  • Using The Google Web APIs With PHP
  • Remote Control
  • The Bare Necessities
  • Plugging In
  • Chasing Liberty
  • The Sum Of All Parts
  • Cache Cow
  • Alternatives
  • Closing Time

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    Using The Google Web APIs With PHP - The Sum Of All Parts
    ( Page 6 of 9 )

    Thus far, the two examples you've seen have had the search term hardwired into them. Needless to say, this isn't very useful in the real world - it's far more sensible to have the search term generated dynamically via user input. The next example does just that, demonstrating how you can add a full-fledged, Google-backed search engine to your application.

    <html> <head><basefont face="Arial"></head> <body> <?php if (!$_POST['q']) { ?> <h2>Search</h2> <form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post"> Search term: <input type="text" name="q"> </form> <? } else { // include the class include("nusoap.php"); // create a instance of the SOAP client object $soapclient = new soapclient("http://api.google.com/search/beta2"); // uncomment the next line to see debug messages // $soapclient->debug_flag = 1; // set up an array containing input parameters to be // passed to the remote procedure $params = array( 'key' => 'your-google-license-key-xxxxxxxx', // Google license key 'q' => $_POST['q'], // search term 'start' => 0, // start from result n 'maxResults' => 10, // show a total of n results 'filter' => true, // remove similar results 'restrict' => '', // restrict by topic 'safeSearch' => true, // remove adult links 'lr' => '', // restrict by language 'ie' => '', // input encoding 'oe' => '' // output encoding ); // invoke the method on the server $result = $soapclient->call("doGoogleSearch", $params, "urn:GoogleSearch", "urn:GoogleSearch"); // print the results of the search if ($result['faultstring']) { ?> <h2>Error</h2> <? echo $result['faultstring'];?> <? } else { ?> <h2>Search Results</h2> Your search for <b><?=$result['searchQuery']?></b> produced <?=$result['estimatedTotalResultsCount']?> hits. <br> <ul> <? if (is_array($result['resultElements'])) { foreach ($result['resultElements'] as $r) { echo "<li><a href=" . $r['URL'] . ">" . $r['title'] . "</a>"; echo "<br>"; echo $r['snippet'] . "(" . $r['cachedSize'] . ")"; echo "<p>"; } } ?> </ul> <? } } ?> </body> </html>
    As you can see, this script is split into two sections, one for the search form and the other for the search results. An "if" statement, keyed on the presence or absence of the query string, is used to decide which section of the script to execute.

    <?php if (!$_POST['q']) { // display form } else { // execute query on Google } ?>
    Here's what the search form looks like:



    Once the user enters a search term and submits the form, the second half of the script springs into action, initializes the SOAP client and performs the query on the Google SOAP server. The result is then formatted and displayed as in the previous example. Here's an example of what it might look like:



    And there you have it - your very own Google search!

     
     
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