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Good afternoon, I am able to retrieve results from yahoo with my API key, using the instructions found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/codeexamples.html# Code: <?php require("OAuth.php"); $cc_key = "your consumer key here"; $cc_secret = "your consumer secret here"; $url = "<http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/news>,web,images"; $args = array(); $args["q"] = "yahoo"; $args["format"] = "json"; $consumer = new OAuthConsumer($cc_key, $cc_secret); $request = OAuthRequest::from_consumer_and_token($consumer, NULL,"GET", $url, $args); $request->sign_request(new OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1(), $consumer, NULL); $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, OAuthUtil::build_http_query($args)); $ch = curl_init(); $headers = array($request->to_header()); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $rsp = curl_exec($ch); $results = json_decode($rsp); print_r($results); ?> However the output of results is very bizarre, for example, if I search for elephant, I get the following results (partial copy and paste): stdClass Object ( [bossresponse] => stdClass Object ( [responsecode] => 200 [images] => stdClass Object ( [start] => 0 [count] => 35 [totalresults] => 108000 [results] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [clickurl] => http://0.tqn.com/d/goafrica/1/0/Y/Q/IMG_1592.JPG [size] => 2.2MB [format] => jpeg [height] => 2432 [refererclickurl] => http://goafrica.about.com/od/africanwildlife/ss/The-Big-5-Images-Facts-And-Information-About-Africas-Big-Five_2.htm [refererurl] => http://goafrica.about.com/od/africanwildlife/ss/The-Big-5-Images-Facts-And-Information-About-Africas-Big-Five_2.htm [title] => African Elephant - One of the "Big Five" - African Elephant Image ... [url] => http://0.tqn.com/d/goafrica/1/0/Y/Q/IMG_1592.JPG [width] => 2591 [thumbnailheight] => 150 [thumbnailurl] => http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4700108340594617&pid=15.1&H=150&W=160 [thumbnailwidth] => 160 ) [1] => stdClass Object ( [clickurl] => http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/004/cache/african-elephant_435_600x450.jpg [size] => 54.1KB [format] => jpeg [height] => 450 [refererclickurl] => http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/elephants/ [refererurl] => http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/elephants/ [title] => Elephant Pictures - National Geographic [url] => http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/004/cache/african-elephant_435_600x450.jpg [width] => 600 [thumbnailheight] => 120 [thumbnailurl] => http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5058106677789309&pid=15.1&H=120&W=160 [thumbnailwidth] => 160 ) [2] => stdClass Object ( [clickurl] => http://www.splendidwallpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/baby_elephant_1024x768.jpg [size] => 149.4KB [format] => jpeg [height] => 768 [refererclickurl] => http://www.splendidwallpaper.com/baby-elephant-2102/ [refererurl] => http://www.splendidwallpaper.com/baby-elephant-2102/ Please bear in mind that I am very new to php, and programming in general. I am completing a fast track learning course where we don`t have time to learn the basics, we are in the deep end! Does anyone have suggestions on how to display the results properly? Thanks! Note: I had tried to do it this way (which worked with the Google API - although the links were not clickable).. It did not work at all with Yahoo: foreach ($results->{ 'items' } as $item ) { echo $item->{ 'title' }.": ".$item->{ 'link' }."\n\n"; echo $newline; }