Create Google Advanced Search String
September 25th, 2007 by Aaron
I found an interesting article about the parameters of the advanced search URL for google. Just for fun, I tested out their concepts and they were all true. I figured maybe there was a reason to do this as a PHP class (I think I was just bored…).
You can find the code here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 | <?php /** * Google Utilities Script * * This file contains the classes for various google utilities. * * @author Aaron Saray */ /** * Google Parent class * * Any shared google class items */ class google { } /** * Google Search string class * * This class helps create a google search string * * Inspired by: http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/30/google-search-urls-revealed-or-how-to-create-your-own-search-url/ */ class google_searchString extends google { /** * search terms * @var string */ public $searchTerms = null; /** * exclude search terms * @var string */ public $excludeSearchTerms = null; /** * or query? * @var boolean */ public $isOr = false; /** * same page query? * * Means the search terms must be found on the same page, not necessarily next to each other * @var boolean */ public $isSamePage = true; /** * phrase query? * @var boolean */ public $isPhrase = false; /** * Number results (0 - 100) * @var integer */ public $numberResults = 10; /** * Safe search? * @var boolean */ public $isSafeSearch = true; /** * Last updated * 'y' Year 'm6' 6 months 'm3' 3 months * @var string */ public $lastUpdated = null; /**********************************************************************************************/ /** * constructor * Does nothing currently */ public function __construct() {} /** * Get output. * * This will return the google search string. * @throws google_searchStringException * @return string */ public function getString() { /** process sanity/check for errors **/ $this->_sanityCheck(); /** process into an array **/ $values = $this->_processValues(); /** return the built get string **/ return "http://www.google.com/search?" . http_build_query($values); } /**********************************************************************************************/ /** * Checks for errors and unset items that could cause an error for the processing script * @throws google_searchStringException */ protected function _sanityCheck() { /** * check for a search term. */ if ($this->searchTerms === NULL) { throw new google_searchStringException("Must enter a search term"); } /** * check if at least but not more than 1 search types */ $isTypes = array('isOr', 'isPhrase', 'isSamePage'); $count = 0; foreach ($isTypes as $type) { if ($this->$type) { $count++; } } if (count($count) < 1) { throw new google_searchStringException("One type of search must be true."); } else if (count($count) > 1) { throw new google_searchStringException("Only one type of search must be true."); } /** * check last updated */ if ($this->lastUpdated !== NULL) { $upTypes = array('y', 'm6', 'm3'); if (!in_array($this->lastUpdated, $upTypes)) { throw new google_searchStringException("Only the following values are allowed for last updated: " . implode(',', $upTypes)); } } } /** * process values and returns them in the form of an array for a get statement * * @return array */ protected function _processValues() { $values = array(); /** * get our search string into our type */ switch (true) { /** yes thats tacky ;) **/ case $this->isOr: $values['as_oq'] = $this->searchTerms; break; case $this->isPhrase: $values['as_epq'] = $this->searchTerms; break; case $this->isSamePage: $values['as_q'] = $this->searchTerms; break; } /** * set exclusion */ if ($this->excludeSearchTerms !== NULL) { $values['as_eq'] = $this->excludeSearchTerms; } /** * set number of results */ $values['num'] = $this->numberResults; /** * set safe search */ $values['safe'] = $this->isSafeSearch; /** * set updated */ if ($this->lastUpdated !== NULL) { $values['as_qdr'] = $this->lastUpdated; } /** * send it back now */ return $values; } } /** * Google Search String Exception */ class google_searchStringException extends exception {} /** * test */ $search = new google_searchString(); $search->searchTerms = 'test page'; print $search->getString(); |
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