Re: using CURL to post data to a search engine

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I don't think you'll get php to work with google unless you use the google api - I heard that google has filtered out the php(and others) user-agent. If you need more info on the google api just let me know. ~Pauly On Friday 27 September 2002 07:25 pm, rdkurth@starband.net wrote: > I am trying to use curl to post data to a search engine and then > return the results in a variable so I can manipulate it. > I have tried this but it does not seam to work properly. > This is just an example of how I am trying to do this I don't have > to use google for the search engine just thought if I can get it > working with this I can get it to work with others > > $ch = curl_init ("http://www.google.com/"); > curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); > $word="php"; > $args="action=/search&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$word&btnG=Google > Search"; > curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args); > curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > $data = curl_exec ($ch); > curl_close ($ch); > echo $data; > > There does not seam to be much info or examples on using curl with php > is there anyplace that you know of that has more info than the manual - -- ~Paul Nicholson Design Specialist @ WebPower Design "The web....the way you want it!" paul@webpowerdesign.net "It said uses Windows 98 or better, so I loaded Linux!" Registered Linux User #183202 using Register Linux System # 81891 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9lQ4TDyXNIUN3+UQRAgkDAJ4tTM2U/c0giejT1DzdDEg5HbQm0gCdE1Ht il6KWww8aId6IE9xpBage08= =2miE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----