[RESOLVED] Add "new window" to php Google search code

[dmacman1962]

Hi All,

I have found a PHP Google search that is what I am looking for, but would like to have the results go to a new window, instead of the same window.

I could do it in HTML, but I am not able to figure out how to modify the following code to accomplish this.

<?php

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is example code of how to query the Google API using
// Web Services, SOAP, and PHP.
//
// Author: Geoff Peters, January 6th 2004.  

// Updated by Dan Karran, 10th March 2005 to utilise nuSOAP instead of PEAR.


// put your developer's key here:
$key = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz';



include ('nusoap.php');

$soapclient = new soapclient('http://api.google.com/search/beta2');
$soapoptions = 'urn:GoogleSearch';

// Ensure there is a start value
if (!$start) { 
  $start = 0; 
} else {
  $start = intval($start-1);
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Calls the Google API and retrieves the search results in $ret 
// 
function do_search( $q, $type, $key, $start, &$ret )
{
    global $soapclient;
    global $soapoptions;


// Note that we pass in an array of parameters into the Google search.
// The parameters array has to be passed by reference.
// The parameters are well documented in the developer's kit on the
// Google site http://www.google.com/apis


// limit searches to this server    
$sitequery = "$q site:{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']} $restrict";

$params = array(
            'key' => $key, 
            'q' => $sitequery, 
            'start' => $start, 
            'maxResults' => 10,
            'filter' => false, 
            'restrict' => '',
            'safeSearch' => false,
            'lr' => '',
            'ie' => '',
            'oe' => ''
    );

// Here's where we actually call Google using SOAP.
    // doGoogleSearch is the name of the remote procedure call.

$ret = $soapclient->call('doGoogleSearch', $params, $soapoptions);

$err = $soapclient->getError();

if ($err)
{
    print("<br>An error occurred!<br>");
    print(" Error: $err<br>\n");
    return false;
}

return true;
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Does Google search with retry. 
// Retry is useful because sometimes the connection will
// fail for some reason but will succeed when retried.
function search( $q, $type, $key, $start, &$ret )
{
    $result = false;
    $max_retries = 5;
    $retry_count = 0;

while( !$result && $retry_count < $max_retries )
{
      $result = do_search( $q, $type, $key, $start, $ret );    
        if( !$result )
    {
        print( "Attempt $retry_count failed.<br>\n");
    }    
    $retry_count++;
}
if( !$result )
{
    print("<br>Sorry, connection to Google failed after retrying several times.<br>\n");
}
return $result;
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Calls the Google API and retrieves the suggested spelling correction 
// 
function do_spell( $q, $key, &$spell )
{
    global $soapclient;
    global $soapoptions;

$params = array(
            'key' => $key, 
            'phrase' => $q, 
    );

$spell = $soapclient->call('doSpellingSuggestion', $params, $soapoptions);

$err = $soapclient->getError();

if ($err)
{
    print("<br>An error occurred!<br>");
    print(" Error: $err<br>\n");
    return false;
}

return true;
}


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The main part of this script


if( $q != "" )
{
    // remove the slashes that are automatically added by PHP before each quotation mark
    $q = stripslashes($q);

if( do_search( $q, $type, $key, $start, $ret ) )
{

    $count = $ret['estimatedTotalResultsCount'];	// total number of results
    $secs = round($ret['searchTime'],2);			// time taken to search (in seconds)
    $min = $ret['startIndex'];						// first record returned
    $max = $ret['endIndex'];						// last record returned

    if ($max) {

      // Truncate query for display
      if (strlen($q) > 36) {
        $short_q = substr($q,0,33)."...";
      } else {
        $short_q = $q;
      }

      // print header with search box and details of search results
      print "<form method=\"GET\"><table class=\"search_top\" width=100%><tr><td nowrap style=\"text-align:left;\">";
      print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"30\" value=\"$q\">\n";
      print "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"search\">\n";
      print "</td><td nowrap> results <b>$min</b> - <b>$max</b> of about <b>$count</b> for <b>$short_q</b> ";
      print " (<b>$secs</b> seconds)&nbsp;</td></tr></table></form>";

      // list results
      foreach($ret['resultElements'] as $result) {

        // Make URLs more friendly for user by removing http:// and highlighting where necessary
        $friendly_URL = $result['URL'];
        $friendly_URL = str_replace("http://","",$friendly_URL);
        $friendly_URL = str_replace("$q","<b>$q</b>",$friendly_URL);

        print "<p class=\"search_result\">";                        
        if (!$title = $result['title']) {
          $title = $result['URL'];
          print "<a href=\"".$result['URL']."\">".$friendly_URL."</a>\n";
        } else {
          print "<a href=\"".$result['URL']."\">".$title."</a><br/>\n";
          if ($result['snippet']) {
            print $result['snippet']."<br/>\n";
          }
		  print "<span class=\"search_url\">$friendly_URL</a>";
        }
        print "</p>\n\n";
      }
    } else {

      print "<p>Sorry, no results were found on this site for <b>$q</b>. ";
      do_spell($q, $key, $spell);
      if ($spell[0]) {
        print "Did you mean <b><a href=\"../search/?q=".$spell."\">".$spell."</a></b>? ";
      }
      print "Occasionally no results will be returned when there are problems with the link between this site and Google. If you believe the information is on the site but it tells you that it's not, please try again.</p>";
    }
}
}

// Show forward/backward navigation if there are results
if ($count) {
  print "<div class=\"search_bottom\">";
  if ($min>1) {
    if ($min >10) {
      $prevpage = $min-10;
    } else {
      $prevpage = 1;
    }
    print " <b><a href=\"../search/?q=".$q."&start=".$prevpage."\">previous page</a></b> | ";
  } else {
    print " previous page | ";
  }
  if ($count>$max) {
    $nextpage = $max+1;
    print " <b><a href=\"../search/?q=".$q."&start=".$nextpage."\">next page</a></b> ";
  } else {
    print " next page ";
  }
  print "</div>";
}

  print "<form method=\"GET\" class=\"search_main\">";
  print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"32\" value=\"$q\"> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"search\">";
  print "</form>";

?>

I added this to a div layer in dreamweaver, but want to open a new window after the users enters their search criteria and hits search.

Thanks in advance,

Don

[Weedpacket]

You need to do it in HTML. PHP doesn't know what "windows" are at all. (Except PHP-GTK, but that's another thing entirely.)

[dmacman1962]

Thanks Weedpacket.

I understand that PHP does not know what a window is.

And since this search is PHP driven, not HTML driven, the search, GET and POST and display of data is all PHP driven, and I do not believe the new window could be activated thru HTML alone.

I know that what I am trying to accomplish, needs to happen in this section of code:

// print header with search box and details of search results
          print "<form method=\"GET\"><table class=\"search_top\" width=100%><tr><td nowrap style=\"text-align:left;\">";
          print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"30\" value=\"$q\">\n";
          print "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"search\">\n";
          print "</td><td nowrap> results <b>$min</b> - <b>$max</b> of about <b>$count</b> for <b>$short_q</b> ";
          print " (<b>$secs</b> seconds)&nbsp;</td></tr></table></form>";

I need to modifiy this section, I believe, to include a target="_blank", sort of like this:

Open in new window post.

I know this has been done before, I just cannot seem to modify my code to work correctly.

Thanks in advance, again.

Don

[Weedpacket]

Yes, the target attribute goes in the <form> tag. Plain ordinary HTML, that.

[dmacman1962]

I do not mean to be stubborn, but the reason I posted to this forum is that I cannot take this code:

// print header with search box and details of search results
          print "<form method=\"GET\"><table class=\"search_top\" width=100%><tr><td nowrap style=\"text-align:left;\">";
          print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"30\" value=\"$q\">\n";
          print "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"search\">\n";
          print "</td><td nowrap> results <b>$min</b> - <b>$max</b> of about <b>$count</b> for <b>$short_q</b> ";
          print " (<b>$secs</b> seconds)&nbsp;</td></tr></table></form>";

and incorporate (thru my brain) the 'target="_blank"' into the PHP code.

A reference to the w3.org is nice, but does not give me enough info to figure out "where" in the PHP code to add that HTML snippet.

Sorry, but I have posted here for over a year, and I have had other programmers like yourself, lead me to the solution, or tell me it cannot be accomplished.

I do not expect or want answers handed to me, but a little guidance and understanding goes a long way to somone who is still learning PHP.

I appreciate your answers, but I am no closer to the solution (again, in my "learning brain") than before you posted.

If you do not want to help me, no problem. I am sure the other programmers who read this forum will be a little more helpfull.

Don

[Weedpacket]

Have a look at your PHP code. What does it produce? What does the browser get (hint: it's HTML)? What do you want it to get (hint: it's still HTML)? What needs to change to get from one lot of HTML to the other? Now go back to your code, remind yourself what it does and ask yourself what you ought to change in it to change the HTML (hint: it's the HTML) and how you should change it? Answer those questions and voilà, you're learning.

The only way to explain it more simply is to hand it to you.

[dmacman1962]

Weedpacket,

I added this:

target=\"_blank\"

to this:

  print "<form method=\"GET\" class=\"search_main\" target=\"_blank\">";
  print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"32\" value=\"$q\"> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"search\">";
  print "</form>";

and that gave me a new window with the search results.

I am weighing if it will be worth the effort to try and add some javascript to control the window size, and position, or just let this fly.

Thanks,

Don