[RESOLVED] Opening $_GET urls?

[sveegaard]

Hi y'all,

I want to extract data from Google in a specific search.

But when I use

    $filename = "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$somequery";
    $handle = fopen($filename, "r");
    $contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
    fclose($handle);
    echo $contents; 

I get the error:

Warning: fopen("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(somequery)", "r") - No error in c:\apache\htdocs\intranet\revision_a\getdata.php on line 100

Warning: stat failed for http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(somequery) (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in c:\apache\htdocs\intranet\revision_a\getdata.php on line 101

[Kasracer]

You should be using Google's API as what you're trying to do is against their policy and if your script does it alot, you could get banned from Google (or at least your server).

[john tindell]

http://www.google.com/api

You need to get a free serial and then your good to go, to use it with PHP you need to have access to a SOAP library, either through pear, or buy using nusoap from sf. There are others out their but i recommend nusoap, haven't had any problems yet.

[visualAd]

Look into using SOAP. PHP 5 has an extension and PEAR also has an implementation.

[sveegaard]

Ok, thx.

I thought that no rule was broken because it's just a simple HTTP request.

[penagate]

Yuh, but it's an automated request.