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PHP - Search External Website
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Im just wondering how you go about building a search function to another website, So on my webpage i could have a search that searchs the itunes store or something? Has anybody previous experience with this or can point me in the right direction, I have googled this but all im being shown is an overwhelming amount of results for google instant! thanks in advance Similar TutorialsI'm trying to make a League of Legends (a video game) community website, both as a personal project and for practice. Now the game has a lot of champions, each of whom have 5 unique abilities. Now, I thought about manually inputting all the details about each champion into a MySQL database, but that would long and tedious, and I don't really have the time for it now. Also, the game patches very oftern (like, once every 2 weeks) which changes many of the stats, etc. of the champion, and it is not possible for me to keep manually updating these every time there is a patch. Fortunately, there is a League of Legends Wiki which has all the data I need in their specific champion pages, which they keep updated per patch. So I was wondering if there was any way to get the data from the divs in the wiki, and have it display on my site. What I want to do in my website is that whenever someone types a champion's name (in a post or whatever), I want it to display a hover-over dialog with some of the champions details. And a lot of other features such as that. In plain English I need a way to : > Tell PHP to go to the wiki's source code on a specific page > Find a specific div container > Get X data from there > Pass X data into a function to display the hover-over I think this way, I would not have to maintain a database as I can leech off the wiki's data. I have not coded anything like this before, so I would like a few pointers as to how to achieve this. Any help will be appreciated! Hi, I would like to know how to get The Value Of An Hidden TextBox From an External Website than Mine. I'm Coding an Addons for CCBChurch.com (mychurch.ccbchurch.com/app/trx_submit_bp.php), This is a donation website, They want me to code an addons so people can place it on their website and people can donate. I made it in cURL with POST but they generate a TimeStamp and a TimeStamp encoded, The 2 are on mychurch.ccbchurch.com/app/trx_submit_bp.php on hidden textbox. I would like to get the TS and TSH from the hidden textbox on the website, Is that possible ? I would too like to put it in Variable $ts and $tsh... Thanks ! Hi guys, I'm not so good with PHP (hence my post here). Other forums have suggested using javascript, but if not enabled by the user, then it's not much good). I'm trying to set up a search box with submit button. For any keywords searched for, I would like the search terms sent to an external site in the format: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx?st=FT&ss=XXXXX (where XXXXX is the keyword). So far, I have: <?php $keyword = htmlspecialchars($_POST['keyword']); ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" id="searchform" action="http://www.domain.com/default.aspx?st=FT&ss=<?php echo 'keyword'; ?>" /> <input type="text" name="keyword" id="se" size="35" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'search...';}" onfocus="if (this.value == 'search...') {this.value = '';}" value="search..." class="text" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Send" /> </form> </body> </html> .and although it directs to the url, the keyword(s) is not present. Any help would be appreciated. I have been trying to figure this out for a friend of mine that wants this done, but I have begun to think that it just isn't possible - for security reasons... I need to run a HTML form on an external website for each url selected - so run through a loop processing the form over and over... Something like: for($i=0;$i<=count($urls);$i++){ // run form on http://website.com using $url[$i] } Can this be done? I am thinking that without recreating the PHP script the site uses in the form, it can't. When I use PHP to gain data from another webpage I usually use file_get_contents Is there a faster way to retrieve data from webpages faster since it only seems to do around 200 website line retrievals per minute? Is cURL faster? Thank you Part of my page is taken from external webpages by preg_match. Since It is a partial section, it contains incomplete tags such as <div>, <span>, etc. Thus, they mix up with my entire page and my </div>, </span> are used for the incomplete tags in the borrowed section. How I can end such tags? or separate this section from the main codes (I mean having an isolated section)? hii..
i want a travel search engine script in php website. i am searching for 2 to 3 days on it.
but i dont know how to start. i searched on google. find sme APIs for it. but where to implement those APIs. what code i need to write for it.
it would be grateful if anyone give some suggestions on this.
thanks and regards.
Hi Friends..... I want to implement search indexing (like joomla) in my website. Earlier I develop search from database by "select" statement. But for whole website, I don't have any idea to do it............ Plzzzzzzz Help ??????/// I'll highly oblized to you............. The result pages is supposed to have pagination like google help me please
I require a page to be added to my website. This page will facilitate a refined search via Google, Bing and Yahoo search engine simultaneously , show the top 5 of each engine. Is this possible using php ? Thank's Hello, Does anyone know a tutorial I can follow to create my own search engine over the items I have in my SQL database? I find a lot of tutorials but they are all 'one word searches' which means if you type two words you will get all results that contain either word (too many hits). If the search engine tutorial displays result with AJAX even better. Thanks for help. df I have code to search a database of members, I can search by lastname but having a little problem. I want to be able to search by lastname starting with the first letter. (ie: a or b or c or d and so on). As it is right now I can only search by first letter of last name if I add % to the search (ie: a% b% c%) will give me all members with the last names starting with the approiate letter designation. I'm not sure how to handle this, any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Code: [Select] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> </head> <body> <center><table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" border="0"> <h4>Search</h4> <form name="search" method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF?>"> Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in <Select NAME="field"> <Option VALUE="lname">Last Name</option> <input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" /> <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" /> </form> <?php // check to see if anything is posted if (isset($_POST['find'])) {$find = $_POST['find'];} if (isset($_POST['searching'])) {$searching = $_POST['searching'];} if (isset($_POST['field'])) {$field = $_POST['field'];} //This is only displayed if they have submitted the form if (isset($searching) && $searching=="yes") { echo "<h4>Results</h4><p>"; // If they did not enter a search term we give them an error if (empty($find)) { echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; exit; } // Otherwise we connect to our Database mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "1910") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("cmc_member") or die(mysql_error()); // We preform a bit of filtering $find = strtoupper($find); $find = strip_tags($find); $find = trim ($find); // Now we search for our search term, in the field the user specified $results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE upper($field) LIKE'$find'"); // And we display the results if($results && mysql_num_rows($results) > 0) { $i = 0; $max_columns = 3; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) { // make the variables easy to deal with extract($row); // open row if counter is zero if($i == 0) echo "<tr>"; // make sure we have a valid product ALIGN='CENTER' if($fname != "" && $fname != null) echo "<td ALIGN='CENTER'><FONT COLOR='red'><b>$fname $lname</b></FONT><br> $address <br> $city $state $zip <br>$phone<br><a href=\"mailto: $email\">$email</a><br></td>"; // increment counter - if counter = max columns, reset counter and close row if(++$i == $max_columns) { echo "</tr>"; $i=0; } // end if } // end while } // end if results // clean up table - makes your code valid! if($i < $max_columns) { for($j=$i; $j<$max_columns;$j++) echo "<td> </td>"; } //This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that $anymatches = mysql_num_rows($results); if ($anymatches == 0) { echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>"; } //And we remind them what they searched for echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find; } ?> </tr> </table></center> </body> </html> Hello, I'm developing a website that asks the user to submit a keyword for a search. The results should display matches for this keyword, but also show matches for related keywords (in order of relevenace!). I'm planning on building up a library of which search terms users use in the same sessions (e.g. if someone searches for "it jobs" and "php jobs", I'll know the terms are correlated), and I'll also measure the click-through rates of the items on the results list. I've been spending all weekend trying to map out the design for this but it's proving incredibly complicated and I think the solution is likely to be on the internet somewhere already?! Please could someone point me in the right direction if you've come accross this problem before? Thanks a million, Stu Hi all How do I modify the below code to search multiple tables in mySQL database? $query = "select * from store_items where description like \"%$trimmed%\" or title like \"%$trimmed%\" or dimensions like \"%$trimmed%\" order by id ASC"; $numresults=mysql_query($query); $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults); It is for a search function and I need it to search another table called 'about_text' and 'faq_text' Thanks Pete Friends, I want to extract the Search Keyword from the URL, a visitor came from. I am using a PHP CMS and want to show the Keyword on my Blog. So if they search "abcd" from google, i want to extract "abcd" and echo on my blog. Here is the coding i could got hold of, but its not working, not echoing anything <?php function pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($ref) { $search_engines = array('google.com' => 'q', 'go.google.com' => 'q', 'images.google.com' => 'q', 'video.google.com' => 'q', 'news.google.com' => 'q', 'blogsearch.google.com' => 'q', 'maps.google.com' => 'q', 'local.google.com' => 'q', 'search.yahoo.com' => 'p', 'search.msn.com' => 'q', 'bing.com' => 'q', 'msxml.excite.com' => 'qkw', 'search.lycos.com' => 'query', 'alltheweb.com' => 'q', 'search.aol.com' => 'query', 'search.iwon.com' => 'searchfor', 'ask.com' => 'q', 'ask.co.uk' => 'ask', 'search.cometsystems.com' => 'qry', 'hotbot.com' => 'query', 'overture.com' => 'Keywords', 'metacrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.netscape.com' => 'query', 'looksmart.com' => 'key', 'dpxml.webcrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.earthlink.net' => 'q', 'search.viewpoint.com' => 'k', 'mamma.com' => 'query'); $delim = false; if (isset($search_engines[$ref])) { $delim = $search_engines[$ref]; } else { if (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'google')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.atomz.')) $delim = "sp-q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.msn.')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.yahoo.')) $delim = "p"; elseif (preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $ref)) $delim = "bellsouth"; } return $delim; } /** * retrieve the search terms from search engine query * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_terms($d) { $terms = null; $query_array = array(); $query_terms = null; $query = explode($d.'=', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $query = explode('&', $query[1]); $query = urldecode($query[0]); $query = str_replace("'", '', $query); $query = str_replace('"', '', $query); $query_array = preg_split('/[\s,\+\.]+/',$query); $query_terms = implode(' ', $query_array); $terms = htmlspecialchars(urldecode(trim($query_terms))); return $terms; } /** * get the referer * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_referer() { if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) || ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == '')) return false; $referer_info = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $referer = $referer_info['host']; if(substr($referer, 0, 4) == 'www.') $referer = substr($referer, 4); return $referer; } $referer = pk_stt2_function_get_referer(); if (!$referer) return false; $delimiter = pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($referer); if( $delimiter ){ $term = pk_stt2_function_get_terms($delimiter); } echo $term; ?> May someone help? Natasha T Hello. I am working on a php script for searching a database table. I am really new to this, so I used the this tutorial http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search I managed to get all the things working the way I wanted, except one important and crucial thing. Let me explain. My table consist of three columns, like this: ID(bigint20) title(text) link (varchar255) ============================= ID1 title1 link-1 ID2 title2 link-2 etc... Like I said, I managed to make the script display results for a search query based on the title. Want I want it to do more, but I can't seem to find the right resource to learn how, is to place a "Download" button under each search result with its corresponding link from the table. Here is the code I used. <?php $dbHost = 'localhost'; // localhost will be used in most cases // set these to your mysql database username and password. $dbUser = 'user'; $dbPass = 'pass'; $dbDatabase = 'db'; // the database you put the table into. $con = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to MySQL Server. Error: " . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db($dbDatabase) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to database {$dbDatabase}. Error: " . mysql_error()); // Set up our error check and result check array $error = array(); $results = array(); // First check if a form was submitted. // Since this is a search we will use $_GET if (isset($_GET['search'])) { $searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']); $searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript. if (strlen($searchTerms) < 3) { $error[] = "Search terms must be longer than 3 characters."; }else { $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection. } // If there are no errors, lets get the search going. if (count($error) < 1) { $searchSQL = "SELECT title, link FROM db WHERE title LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'"; $searchResult = mysql_query($searchSQL) or trigger_error("There was an error.<br/>" . mysql_error() . "<br />SQL Was: {$searchSQL}"); if (mysql_num_rows($searchResult) < 1) { $error[] = "The search term provided {$searchTerms} yielded no results."; }else { $results = array(); // the result array $i = 1; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) { $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> "; $i++; } } } } function removeEmpty($var) { return (!empty($var)); } ?> <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?> <form method="GET" action="search?" name="searchForm"> Search for title: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" /> </form> <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Rezultate lucrari de licenta sau disertatie pentru {$searchTerms} :<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?> $results = array(); // the result array $i = 1; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) { $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> "; $i++; I would like the results to be displayed like this Results for SearchItem: Result 1 Download | Other link Result 2 Download | Other link etc.... or something like this. So, how do I add the data from the link row into a text(Dowload), within an <a href> tag (well, at least I guess it would go this way) ? My first tries (fueled by my lack of knowledge) where things like $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> <a href="{$row['link']}">Download</a> <br /> "; but I keep getting lots of errors, and then I don't know much about arrays and stuff (except basic notions); So there it is. I am really stuck and can't seem to find any workaround for this. Any suggestions? (examples, documentation, anything would do, really) Thanks, Radu I am developing a intranet forum in Php and MySQL and I am using ajax to display searched results on the same page but right now I am using query LIKE text% to search in database which is slower. but I want to make it fast search engin which can parse *,+ and show result. Since I am using ajax i am not able to use free search engin,so if possible pls provide a complete solution Hello All, I tried searching on google but couldn't find any relevant information, please redirect me to relevant source or help me with the code. I want to pass a domain name in text field which will be scanned and then the script will display entire site map. Not external links or links on a page. Sorry it is not easy for me to explain. Eg. if i pass abc.com Script will display abc.com/12/adn.php abc.com/asd/asd/ etc Whatever their url format is. All the links on that domain. |
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