/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ping Google image search
http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/docs/reference.html
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# Settings
$keyword = "puppies";
$howManyResults = 8;
# Max is 8
# What page of search results should it pull from?
$randomPage = rand(1, 50);
# Pick a random page. Make the last number smaller if you wan't more relevant results.
# Ping Google
$url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?start=" . $randomPage . "&rsz=" . $howManyResults . "&v=1.0&q=" . $keyword;
echo "URL We're fetching from: <a href='{$url}'>{$url}</a><br/><br/>";
# Make cURL call
$curlResults = makeCurlCall($url);
# Parse the results of the cURL call into an array
$images = stringExtractor($curlResults, 'unescapedUrl":"', '","');
# Loop through the array showing all the images
foreach ($images as $thisImage) {
echo "<img style='width:100px; height:100px' src='{$thisImage}'/><br/>";
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
makeCurlCall
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function makeCurlCall($url)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$curlResults = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
<title>cURL example for Yahoo News</title>
<!-- OKTOSHOW --><a href='/classes/viewSource/?path=<?php
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?>
' target='_blank'>View Source</a><br/><br/><br/>
<?php
# What URL should we download?
$url = "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/mostviewed";
echo "URL We're fetching from: <a href='{$url}'>{$url}</a><br/><br/>";
# Make curl call
$curlResponse = makeCurlCall($url);
# Parse the results of the curl call, grabbing all the title instances
$titles = stringExtractor($curlResponse, '<title>', '</title>');
# Loop through the titles printing them all out
foreach ($titles as $thisTitle) {
echo $thisTitle . "<br/>";
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
makeCurlCall
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function makeCurlCall($url)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$curlResults = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $curlResults;
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
