There are quite a few examples of using the SOAP package within PEAR to search Google. While the first example I saw worked fine, upgrades to the SOAP package have added some problems searching Google.
SOAP-0.8.1 works as directed, but upgrading to SOAP-0.9.1 breaks searching Google through SOAP.
I have answered about 3 emails on the PEAR mailing list related to the SOAP-0.9.1 problems searching Google, and I decided to look into solutions a little more.
If you have PHP 5 with the SOAP extensions installed you can remove the PEAR SOAP package out of the picture entirely.
Here’s a starting point:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Google Search Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.ret_head {height:1.5em;width:100%;border-bottom:1px solid #6C6C66;}
.ret_head .sch_title {font-size:1.5em;float:left;}
.ret_head .ret_count {float:right;}
.err_head {margin-top:20px;margin-left:125px;}
.g {margin-bottom:1em;}
.g .ret_snip {}
.g .ret_url {color:#9E605D;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Google API Key
$key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
// Google Search Query
$query = 'soap';
$client = new SoapClient('http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl');
$ret = $client->doGoogleSearch(
$key, // the Developer's key
$query, // the search query
0, // the point in the search results should Google start
10, // the number of search results (max 10)
false, // should the results be filtered?
'',
false,
'',
'',
''
);
if ($ret->estimatedTotalResultsCount>0) {
echo "<div class='ret_head'><div class='sch_title'>Google Search</div><div class='ret_count'>Results <strong>{$ret->startIndex}</strong> through <strong>{$ret->endIndex}</strong> of about <strong>{$ret->estimatedTotalResultsCount}</strong> for <strong>".htmlentities($query)."</strong>.</div></div>";
foreach ($ret->resultElements as $result) {
echo "<div class='g'>\n";
echo "<a href='{$result->URL}'>";
if ($result->title != "") {
echo $result->title;
} else {
echo str_replace("http://","",$result->URL);
}
echo "</a>\n";
if ($result->snippet != "") echo "<div class='ret_snip'>{$result->snippet}</div>\n";
if ($result->title != "") echo "<div class='ret_url'>".str_replace("http://","",$result->URL)." - </div>\n";
echo "</div>";
}
} else {
print("<div class='err_head'>Your search - <strong>".htmlentities($query)."</strong> - did not match any documents.<br />
Suggestions:<br />
<ul>
<li>Make sure all words are spelled correctly.</li>
<li>Try different keywords.</li>
<li>Try more general keywords.</li>
<li>Try fewer keywords.</li>
</ul>
</div>");
}
highlight_file($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
?>
</body>
</html>
