Example Code Usage
February 6th, 2007 by 
jay
Example Usage
Here are 3 examples of using phpYahoo to search for the Web, Videos and Images.
PHP:
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include_once('api/phpYahoo.php');
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$y = new phpYahoo('jrrxraqsrfgviny');
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$y->enableCache('db');
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$searchtext= $GET['searchtext'];
Yahoo! Web Search
PHP:
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$results_web = $y->searchWeb($params); //search text and number of results MAX:50
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foreach($results_web as $result) {
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$html_web .= "<p style='background:".$bgcolor.";'>\n";
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//display a link to the search item result
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$html_web .= "<a href='".$result['clickUrl']."' title='".$result['displayUrl']."'>".$result['title']."</a>";
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$html_web .= "<br>";
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//display the summary
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$html_web .= $result['summary']; $html_web .= "<br>";
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$html_web .= "</p>\n"; $count++;
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}
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echo $html_web;
Yahoo! Video Search
PHP:
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$results_web = $y->searchVideos($params);
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foreach($results_video as $result) {
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$html_video .= "<p>\n";
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$html_video .= "<a href='".$result['clickUrl']."' title='".$result['displayUrl']."'>".$result['title']."</a>";
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$html_video .= "<br>";
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$html_video .= $result['summary']; $html_video .= "<br>";
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//display a thumbnail of the video with a link
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$html_video .= "<a href='".$result['url']."' title='".$result['title']."'><img src='".$result['thumbnail']."'></a>";
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$html_video .= "<br>"; $html_video .= "</p>\n";
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}
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echo $html_video ;
Yahoo! Image Search
PHP:
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$results_images = $y->searchImages($params);
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$results_images = $y->searchImages($searchtext);
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$html_images .= "<p>\n"; $html_images .= "<table><tr valign=top>\n";
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$i=0;
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foreach($results_images as $result) {
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$html_images .= "<td width='23%' align='center'>\n";
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$html_images .= "<a href='".$result['url']."' title='".$result['title']."'><img src='".$result['thumbnail']."' border='0'></a>"; $html_images .= "<br>";
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$html_images .= "</td>\n"; $i++; if($i==3) {
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$html_images .= "</tr><tr valign=top>"; $i=0;
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}
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}
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$html_images .= "</table></p>\n";
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echo $html_images;
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