Google Search using CakePhP

By Salim (salimk786)
There comes a time when everyone needs to search the Internet. This search can be done on Yahoo or Google or MSN or any other search engine.

This app utilizes Web Services to make a call against the Google Servers and returns the results to be displayed.

This is my first release of this app (based on an older cake ver.) and hopefully with the help of the community we can make changes and improvements to make this app a better and faster utility.

Thanks.
nuSOAP -> http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/
Google API Developers key -> https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://api.google.com/createkey&followup=http://api.google.com/createkey

Installation Instructions:: Prerequisites

1. Download the latest version of nuSOAP and upload it to /cake/app/vendors/nusoap/

2. Open searchs_controller.php file and insert your Google API Developers key (if you don't have one, you need to create a Google Account) wher it says: 'PLACE KEY HERE'

3. Upload the Controller and View to your app.

4. Perform a search.

Controller Class:

Download code <?php 
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
// This is example code of how to query the Google API using 
// Web Services, SOAP, and PHP. 
// 
// Author: Salim Kapadia, November 24,2006.   
// Updated by Salim Kapadia to work on the CakePhp Framework.

//I have copied this code from the following and adapted it to work with CakePHP.
// Original Code and comment sources: 
        //    http://www.dankarran.com/googleapi-phpsitesearch/ 
        //  http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Create-Your-Own-Search-Engine-with-PHP-and-Google-Web-Services

vendor('lib/nusoap');     
    
class SearchsController extends AppController
 {
    var $name = 'Searchs';
    var $helpers = array('Html');
    var $key = 'PLACE KEY HERE'; 
    var $soapclient;
        
    function search()
    {
        $results="";
        if (empty($this->params['data']))
        {
            //render empty.
        }
        else
        {
        $this->soapclient = new soapclient("http://api.google.com/search/beta2");
        $this->soapclient->debug_flag = 1; 
            $params = array( 'Googlekey' => $this->key, // Google license 
              // key 
             'queryStr' => $this->params['data']['Search']['q'],  // search term that was being typed 
             'startFrom' => 0,               // start from result n 
             'maxResults' => 10,              // show a total of 10 results 
             'filter' => true,               // remove similar results 
             'restrict' => '',               // restrict by topic 
             'adultContent' => true,        // remove adult links from search result 
             'language' => '',              // restrict by language 
             'iencoding' => '',             // input encoding 
             'oencoding' => ''             // output encoding 
              );     
        $results = $this->soapclient->call("doGoogleSearch", $params, "urn:GoogleSearch", "urn:GoogleSearch"); 
        }
        $this->set('results',$results);        
        $this->render();
    }//end function search        
 }//end class
?>

View Template:

Download code
    echo $html->formTag('/searchs/search');
    echo $html->input('Search/q', array('type' => 'text', 'size' => '25'));
    echo $html->submit('Submit');    
    echo "</form>";          
    
    if ($results)
    {    
        if (isset($results['faultstring'])) 
        {     
            echo "<h2>Error Report</h2>";
            echo $results['faultstring']; 
        }
        else
        {
        echo "<h2>Google Search Results using CakePhP</h2>";
        echo "Your search for <b>" . $results['searchQuery'] . "</b> produced " . $results['estimatedTotalResultsCount'] . " hits." ; 
        $i=1; 
        
            if (is_array($results['resultElements'])) 
            { 
                echo "<table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2>"; 
                    foreach ($results['resultElements'] as $r) 
                      { 
                        echo "<tr><td>[$i] <a href=" . $r['URL'] . ">" . $r['title'] . "</a>"; 
                        echo $r['snippet'] . "(" . $r['cachedSize'] . ")</td></tr>"; 
                        $i++; 
                      }
                echo "</table>";
            }
        }
    }    
    echo $html->formTag('/searchs/search');
    echo $html->input('Search/q', array('type' => 'text', 'size' => '25'));
    echo $html->submit('Submit');    
    echo "</form>";