On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:47 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > Can I use PHP to interface with Google? Any possible examples of this? > > Let's start with the first step. :) > > I'm sure proprietary sites like http://www.compilatio.net/ for example connects to search engines. They cannot be crawling the net too. That would be crazy. > > (I'm a top quoter. It's more intuitive.) > > Thanks Ash. > > John > > > > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 21:56 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > >> How can I use PHP to interface with Google and see if this text exists > >> on the internet? > >> > > > > Wow, that's a pretty big project you're chewing there. A quick search > > shows that there are some project out there to detect plagiarism, but > > I think for university calibre there's a hefty sum of money required. > > It might seem more intuitive to you, but it really, really screws up the archives. Like I said before, cURL is the way to "interface" with Google. Basically, cURL can be used to request resources, in this case a web page, from the web. You can call a URL and parse the page of results to determine whatever you need to. As you've not really hashed out any firm ides of what exactly you want, it's a little difficult to say exactly what you need to do. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
