Retrieving data

[Anon]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering how i could retrieve data in my php file by sending data to a desired page and get the returned values
What i mean is that, for example,
I want to search some related info of the string "PHP script" in a serach engine(let's say the yahoo search engine), how can I get the returned value(the links).
Is there any way in PHP that can do it...?

Thanks a lot!!!

[Anon]

Yes, look at the fopen() family of commands. What you will need to do is open an HTTP connection (from within PHP) to the search engine that you want to use, and pass it all of the search criteria. Then you'll have to parse the HTML that you get back to be displayed properly.