CURL + Getting Google results

[Talon]

I have been trying for a while to display results of Google using CURL, so that they could be easily put into a regular expression, and from their filtered. I was wondering if any of you could perhaps post an example of how you would search google with CURL?

[NogDog]

Personally, I probably wouldn't even bother with cURL. Suppose you have a form field called "search" that supplies the search string:

$search = urlencode($_POST['search']);
$results = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=$search");

At this point, you will need to do some tests to see what the returned text looks like, determine how the data that is of interest to you is marked up so that it can be identified, then probably use some of the preg_*() functions to get/filter the desired data.