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something like this?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
      <title>My Google AJAX Search API Application</title>
          <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAclF0CaSAO_QquNTAYGngFBTtvdACkO1BIkzUzGmCFOiqlW10pRQQGlGnuPiXbCvjoRrG9Yth5Gv2-w" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
          //<![CDATA[
	  
	      google.load("search", "1");
	      
	          function OnLoad() {
		        // Create a search control
			      var searchControl = new google.search.SearchControl();
			      
			            // Add in a full set of searchers
				          var localSearch = new google.search.LocalSearch();
					        searchControl.addSearcher(localSearch);
						      searchControl.addSearcher(new google.search.WebSearch());
						            searchControl.addSearcher(new google.search.VideoSearch());
							          searchControl.addSearcher(new google.search.BlogSearch());
								  
								        // Set the Local Search center point
									      localSearch.setCenterPoint("Texas, US");
									      
									            // Tell the searcher to draw itself and tell it where to attach
										          searchControl.draw(document.getElementById("searchcontrol"));
											  
											        // Execute an inital search
												      searchControl.execute("Google");
												          }
													      google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);
													      
													          //]]>
														      </script>
														        </head>
															  <body>
															      <div id="searchcontrol">Loading...</div>
															        </body>
																</html>

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Am looking for something else.

 

Have a look at it:

 

 

Now observe at the bottom of page you see:

 

Searches related to paintball

 

paintball store

 

paintball guns

 

paintball gear

 

paintball fields

 

paintball discounters

 

paintball game

 

paintball online game

 

spyder paintball

 

i want a script that gets me those Keywords.....

 

May you help with this?

 

Or does any such script exist?

 

Natty

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Daniel0 Advanced Member

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This should do it (until Google changes their HTML output):

 

<?php
function getRelatedTerms($term)
{
    $url = sprintf('http://www.google.com/search?q=%s', urlencode($term));

    $userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3';

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $userAgent,
    )); 
    $googleRes = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
        
    return array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]);
}

print_r(getRelatedTerms('paintball'));

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This should do it (until Google changes their HTML output):

 

<?php
function getRelatedTerms($term)
{
    $url = sprintf('http://www.google.com/search?q=%s', urlencode($term));

    $userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3';

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $userAgent,
    )); 
    $googleRes = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
        
    return array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]);
}

print_r(getRelatedTerms('paintball'));

 

Beautiful!!!

 

Output is:

 

Array ( [0] => wedding rings sets [1] => engagement rings [2] => design your own wedding rings [3] => jewelry stores [4] => wedding bands [5] => tacori [6] => mens wedding rings [7] => wedding dresses )

 

Any way i can use this array in foreach statment....

 

Like..

foreach ($array as value)

{

echo array;

}

 

 

Coz i want to make each search as hyperlink...

 

what to be changed in code to get it run like this?

 

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Well, print_r just prints out an array so you can read it.

 

You can do like this: 

$related = getRelatedTerms('paintball');

foreach ($related as $term) {
    // do something
}

 

Sugar & Sweet!!! 8)

 

Now am scared on how frequently does Google change its HTML output...  ::)

 

Coz, if i implement this code on my production sites, and Google changes the Output formate i will see lot of Error messages so its like lot of mantenece.

 

Is there anyway, we can restrict the Code not to Show Error Message, even when the HTML output changes???

 

Thanks for All Daniel...

 

You guys are Real Smart Coders....

 

 

 

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Well, if Google changes its output then you just won't get any matches. You shouldn't get any error messages. Still, I tried making it as general as possible.

 

Essentially all it does is that it looks for links that has oi=revisions_inline in it and then it extracts the q (the search query) part. If they for some reason stop doing that, then it won't work.

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You can also use XPath:

 

<?php

ini_set('display_errors', 0);

$url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q=paintball';

$dom = new DomDocument();
if ($dom->loadHtmlFile($url)) {
  $xpath = new DomXPath($dom);
  $entries = $xpath->query('//div[@class="brs_col"]/p/a');
  foreach ($entries as $entry) {
    echo $entry->nodeValue, "<br>\n";
  }
}

 

But like Daniel already said:

 

Well, if Google changes its output then you just won't get any matches.

 

 

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Is there anyway, we can restrict the Code not to Show Error Message, even when the HTML output changes???

 

Your production server should be configured like this already. Just make sure that your input is what you expect like:

 

preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
return !empty($matches) && 3 <= sizeof($matches) ? array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]) : array();

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so DOMDocument will complain when it parses it.

 

I tried $dom->strictErrorChecking = false and $dom->validateOnParse = false but it kept giving warning's.

 

Also, your script doesn't output anything.

 

Weird, I get:

 

paintball store

paintball guns

paintball gear

paintball fields

paintball discounters

paintball game

paintball online game

spyder paintball

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Is there anyway, we can restrict the Code not to Show Error Message, even when the HTML output changes???

 

Your production server should be configured like this already. Just make sure that your input is what you expect like:

 

preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
return !empty($matches) && 3 <= sizeof($matches) ? array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]) : array();

 

The additional checks are redundant because $matches[2] will always exist and be an array even if it doesn't find anything.

 

See: 

$googleRes = 'foo';
preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

 

Output: 

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  [1]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  [2]=>
  array(0) {
  }
}

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Is there anyway, we can restrict the Code not to Show Error Message, even when the HTML output changes???

 

Your production server should be configured like this already. Just make sure that your input is what you expect like:

 

preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
return !empty($matches) && 3 <= sizeof($matches) ? array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]) : array();

 

IGnace  i have Curl on Server..

 

Another thing, as per my understanding adding this code will keep me from showing any Error message when google HTML Out put Changes.... Right?

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Is there anyway, we can restrict the Code not to Show Error Message, even when the HTML output changes???

 

Your production server should be configured like this already. Just make sure that your input is what you expect like:

 

preg_match_all('#href\="([^"]+q=([^&]+)[^"]+oi=revisions_inline[^"]+)"#miu', $googleRes, $matches);
return !empty($matches) && 3 <= sizeof($matches) ? array_map('urldecode', $matches[2]) : array();

 

IGnace  i have Curl on Server..

 

Another thing, as per my understanding adding this code will keep me from showing any Error message when google HTML Out put Changes.... Right?

 

That's not necessary. See my previous post.

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