Search Engine Post

[Anon]

I’m in the planning stages of building a php script and would like some suggestions..

I’d like to design the script to:

1) Permit a user to enter a search string

2) “post” that string to a search engine (like altavista.com) and report the number of pages the SE found

ex/ the user enters the string “programming”.

The script should report “5,565,950” (the number of pages found using altavista.com)

I’m fairly new to php so I’d be grateful for any help.

Thanks