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Create Your Own Search Engine with PHP and Google Web Services

In this article, Ahm shows us how to retrieve search results from Google via Web Services, effectively creating our own search engine.

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By: Ahm Asaduzzaman

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February 12, 2003

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Create Your Own Search Engine with PHP and Google Web Services - Walkthrough Example
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<html>
<head><basefont face="Verdana" size="2"></head>
<body>
<?php

if (!$_POST['queryStr'])
{
?>
  <h2>MyGoogle Search Engine</h2>
  <form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
  Type search term: <input type="text" name="queryStr">
  </form>
<?
}
else
{
  // include the class from NuSOAP
  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;

  // prepare an array of input parameters to be passed to the remote   procedure
// doGoogleSearch()
  $params = array(
     'Googlekey' => 'gs8f1fJQFHJfBmgmratlW5z3nTQV0ts8', // Google license
  // key
     'queryStr' => $_POST['queryStr'],  // search term that was being typed
     'startFrom' => 0,               // start from result n
     'maxResults' => 10,              // show a total of 10 results
     'filter' => true,               // remove similar results
     'restrict' => '',               // restrict by topic
     'adultContent' => true,        // remove adult links from search result
     'language' => '',              // restrict by language
     'iencoding' => '',             // input encoding
     'oencoding' => ''             // output encoding
  );

/* invoke the method on the Googles server. The call() method accept four arguments- name of the remote procedure to be invoked, an array of arguments for the remote procedure, namespace and SOAP action */

$MyResult = $soapclient->call("doGoogleSearch", $params, "urn:GoogleSearch", "urn:GoogleSearch");

/* Uncomment next line, if you want to see the SOAP envelop, which is forwarded to Google server, It is important to understand the content of SOAP envelop*/

// echo '<xmp>'.$soapclient->request.'</xmp>';

/* Uncomment next line, if you want to see the SOAP envelop, which is received from Google server. It is important to understand the SOAP packet forwarded from Google Server */

// echo '<xmp>'.$soapclient->response.'</xmp>';

// Print the results of the search
  if ($MyResult['faultstring'])
  {
?>
    <h2>Error Report</h2>
    <? echo $MyResult['faultstring'];?>
<?
  }
  else
  {
?>
<h2>MyGoogle Search Results</h2>
Your search for <b><?=$MyResult['searchQuery']?></b> produced <?=$MyResult['estimatedTotalResultsCount']?> hits.
    <br>

<?   $i=1;
    if (is_array($MyResult['resultElements']))
    { echo "<table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2>";
      foreach ($MyResult['resultElements'] as $r)
      {
        echo "<tr><td>[$i] <a href=" . $r['URL'] . ">" . $r['title'] . "</a>";
        echo $r['snippet'] . "(" . $r['cachedSize'] . ")</td></tr>";
        $i++;
      }
    }
    $i=1;
?>
    </table>
<?
  }
}
?>
</body>
</html>

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