curl_setopt(self::$ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
// Run the curl request
$fc = curl_exec(self::$ch);
// Filter out the Google Javascript API wrapping
if (preg_match('/window.google.ac.h\\((.+?)\\)/', $fc, $results)) {
// Decode the array as JSON
$content = json_decode($results[1]);
// Loop through each search result
foreach ($content[1] as $result) {
// Strip the commas and " results" from the number of hits returned
$value = str_replace(array(',', ' results'), '', $result[1]);
// Create a key in $hits named by the search result, with the number of hits as the value
$hits[$result[0]] = $value;
}
// Confirm we actually found hits
if (is_array($hits)) {
// Sort the array by the number of hits, as a number, in reverse order
arsort($hits, SORT_NUMERIC);
return $hits;
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
// Call the static function getKeywords inside the Keywords class, and pass it the GET or POST var 'q'
$result = Keywords::getKeywords($_REQUEST['q']);
// Display the results
echo '<pre>' . print_r($result, true) . '</pre>';
