was looking though the php builders snippet section for something that could possibly search all search engines at the same time and happen to come across a snippet that claims to do just that. So Anyway I copy and past it and test it out (already assuming it would not work but figured id test anymore just to check). Sure enough it does not work and theirs no info on how to make it work.
So heres the code:
Manual:
$search = WebSearch(your text to search here)
$search[search #]["num_results"] - Returns Number of Results
$search[search #]["link"] - Return the URL
$search[search #]["title"] - Title
$search[search #]["description"] - Part of text (eg. <B>Chocolate</B> is cool)
<?php
function WebSearch($tosearch) {
$q = urlencode($tosearch);
$start = time();
$eng[0]['url'] = "http://www.google.com/search?q=$q&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=0&sa=N";
$eng[0]['name'] = "Google";
$eng[0]['reg'] = "/<p><A HREF=(.*?)>(.*?)<\/A><font.*?<br>(.*?)<br>/";
$eng[0]['strip'] = "\n";
$eng[1]['url'] = "http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&lang=any&query=$q";
$eng[1]['name'] = "AllTheWeb";
$eng[1]['reg'] = '/<dt>.*?href=\"(.*?)\">(.*?)<\/a>.*?<dd>(.*?)<br>/i';
$eng[1]['strip'] = "\n";
$eng[2]['url'] = "http://altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=$q&enc=&kl=XX&search=Search";
$eng[2]['name'] = "Altavista";
$eng[2]['reg'] = "/<A .*?status='(.*?)'.*?\">(.*?)<\/A>.*?<BR>(.*?)<BR>/i";
$eng[2]['strip'] = "\n";
$eng[3]['url'] = "http://search.msn.com/results.asp?ba=(0.0)0&co=(0.10)4.1..2.1.4.1&FORM=MSNH&RS=CHECKED&q=$q&v=1";
$eng[3]['name'] = "MSN";
$eng[3]['reg'] = "/<A CLASS.*?href=\"(.*?)\">(.*?)<\/A><br.*?>(.*?)<br/i";
$eng[3]['strip'] = "";
$eng[4]['url'] = "http://search.excite.com/search.gw?c=web&search=$q&onload=";
$eng[4]['name'] = "Excite";
$eng[4]['reg'] = "/pos=.*?;(http.*?)onMouse.*?<b>(.*?)<br>.*?size8>(.*?)<\/span>/i";
$eng[4]['strip'] = "\n";
$eng[5]['url'] = "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=$q&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8";
//$eng[5]['url'] = "http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=$q&hc=1&hs=4";
$eng[5]['name'] = "Yahoo";
$eng[5]['reg'] = "/href.*?\*(.*?)\">(.*?)<br>.*?<\/b>(.*?)<br>/i";
$eng[5]['strip'] = "\n";
$urls = array();
$out = array();
$y=0;
foreach($eng as $c)
{
$text1 = join("",file($c['url']));
if($c[strip])
$text1 = ereg_replace($c[strip],"",$text1);
preg_match_all($c['reg'],$text1,$matches);
$num = count($matches[0]);
for($x=0;$x<$num;$x++) {
$url = strip_tags($matches[1][$x]);
$title = strip_tags($matches[2][$x]);
$description = strip_tags($matches[3][$x]);
$engine = $c[name];
if($out["$url"])
{
$out["$url"][engine] .= ", $engine";
}
else
{
$out["$url"][title] = $title;
$out["$url"][description] = $description;
$out["$url"][engine] = $engine;
}
$y++;
}
}#rof
while(list($url,$rec) = each($out)) {
extract($rec);
$returned_array = array();
for($i=0; $i < count($out); $i++) {
$returned_array[$i]["secs"] = time() - $start;
$returned_array[$i]["num_results"] = $y;
$returned_array[$i]["link"] = $url;
$returned_array[$i]["title"] = $title;
$returned_array[$i]["description"] = $description;
return $returned_array;
}
}
}
?>
I tried just adding what they said in the Manual inside at the bottom of the php code butt hat didn't work. I also added the ; at the end of each thing and that still didn't work.
Manual:
$search = WebSearch(your text to search here);
$search[search #]["num_results"];
$search[search #]["link"];
$search[search #]["title"];
$search[search #]["description"];
So I figure since I found it here I should probably make a post to see if anyone has an answer on how to work this or possibly make a better one.
