PHP code snippet – How to search google ?
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<title>Google Search Results using PHP</title>
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<h1 style="font-family: 'Yanone Kaffeesatz', arial, serif;">This is a demo page which demonstrates how to print out Google Search Results using PHP</h1>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Yanone Kaffeesatz', arial, serif;">To view this tutorial go to <a href="#" target="_blank">Google Search Results using PHP</a></h2>
<label>Enter your search criteria here:</label>
<form method="get" action="">
<input name="results" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<?php
$search = $_GET['results'];
if(isset($_GET['results']) && $_GET['results'] != "")
{
echo "<br />Your Search Result Array:<br /><br />";
$url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&"
. "q=".str_replace(' ', '%20', $_GET['results']);
// sendRequest
// note how referer is set manually
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
$body = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// now, process the JSON string
$json = json_decode($body);
// print out the Array
print_r($json);
// now have some fun with the results...
}
?>
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