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Class: Yahoo Search API Client (BOSS)
Perform Web searches using the Yahoo BOSS API
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yahoo BOSS Client | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - Synopsis - Requirements - Files - Step-by-Step Usage - Extending Synopsis -------- Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a free search API. This package can retrieve results of web, news and image search and also cache them. Requirements ------------ The package requires PHP 5.3.0 or later with ini setting allow_url_fopen. To use the package, just include YBC.lib.php You will need a BOSS AppId from Yahoo. Get one for free at: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss Files ----- readme.txt - the file you are reading right now license.txt - BSD license YBC.lib.php - library loader, include this file to use the package example.php - example: simple demonstration YBC/AbstractQuery.php - class file: base class for queries YBC/AbstractResult.php - class file: base class for result YBC/Cache.php - class file: cache interface YBC/CacheException.php - class file: cache exception YBC/Client.php - class file: main class YBC/FileCache.php - class file: a filesystem based implementation of cache YBC/ImagesQuery.php - class file: class for image search queries YBC/ImagesResult.php - class file: class for image search results YBC/NewsQuery.php - class file: class for news search queries YBC/NewsResult.php - class file: class for news search results YBC/NullCache.php - class file: dummy implementation of cache YBC/Query.php - class file: query interface YBC/ResultSet.php - class file: class for the whole result YBC/WebQuery.php - class file: class for web search queries YBC/WebResult.php - class file: class for web search results Step-by-Step Usage ------------------ To initialize the client write $ybc = new YBC\Client(APPID); where APPID is your BOSS AppId (see: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss) If you want to use the cache, instantiate a cache object and provide it to the client constructor $dir = '/tmp/ybc-cache'; $cache = new YBC\FileCache($dir); $ybc = new YBC\Client(APPID, $cache); $dir must be the absolute path to an existing writable directory. By default it is '../cache' relative to the YBC class directory. You can also use your own caching mechanism (see: Extending) A query is generated like this: $webQuery = new YBC\WebQuery('search term'); $newsQuery = new YBC\NewsQuery('search term'); $imagesQuery = new YBC\ImagesQuery('search term'); To determine how many result are shown and beginning from which offset, use setLimit(), for example to retrieve the first five results (preset is 0,10): $webQuery->setLimit(0,5); To determine a region and language, use setLocale(), which allows different parameters (preset is 'us-en'): a) single key: $webQuery->setLocale('de'); // region 'de', language 'de' b) combined key: $webQuery->setLocale('us-en'); // region 'us', language 'en' c) class constant: $webQuery->setLocale(YBC\AbstractQuery::LOCALE_HONG_KONG // region 'hk', language 'tzh' Additionaly you can enforce strict language checking with setStrictLang() $webQuery->setStrictLang(true); To search only selected sites, use setSites() or addSite(): $webQuery->setSites(array('github.com', 'phpclasses.org'); $webQuery->addSite('sgh-it.eu'); By default, the search term gets surrounded with <b>-Tags in title and description of the result. To turn this off, use setRawStyle(): $webQuery->setRawStyle(true); These options are available in all query objects (web, news, images). But there are many more options for each query type, for example: // longer preview text: $webQuery->setLongAbstract(true); // include number of saves in delicious: $webQuery->setDeliciousSavesView(true); // get only news from the last 2 days: $newsQuery->setAge('2d'); // order news results by date: $newsQuery->setOrderBy(YBC\NewsQuery::ORDERBY_DATE); // get only images of wallpaper sizes: $imagesQuery->setDimensions(YBC\ImagesQuery::DIMENSIONS_WALLPAPER); // deactivate filter for offensive content: $imagesQuery->setFilter(false); For all the options see phpDoc comments of YBC\WebQuery, YBC\ImagesQuery and YBC\NewsQuery It is also useful to read the BOSS API Guide to see what is possible within BOSS http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/index.html Tip: The query object has a fluent interface, you also can write something like: $webQuery->setLimit(10,10)->setLongAbstract(true); After instantiating and if necessary configuring the query object you can execute the query like so: $resultSet = $ybc->query($webQuery); The returned YBC\ResultSet object is an iterator over YBC\WebResult and provides some additional infos, for example the total number of hits and a query object for the next page: $totalHits = $resultSet->getTotalhits(); $nextQuery = $resultSet->getNextpageQuery(); To iterate over the results, just use foreach. The result attributes can be accessed directly: foreach($resultSet as $result) { echo <<<EOT <div> <h2>$result->title</h2> <p>$result->abstract</p> <p><a href="$result->clickurl">$result->url</a></p> <p>$result->date</p> </div> EOT; } For a complete reference about the result classes see phpDoc comments of YBC\ResultSet, YBC\WebResult, YBC\ImagesResult and YBC\NewsResult. Also -again- it may be helpful to read the BOSS API Guide. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/index.html Now just go and try it out :-) Extending --------- As mentioned above, you can easily implement your own caching mechanisms, i.e. a MySQL based cache. Just implement the YBC\Cache interface (see YBC/Cache.php) Note that the get() and delete() methods expect Query objects as parameters. In the FileCache implementation a hash of the object is used as identifier, which should work out pretty good: $id = md5(serialize($query)); The spl_object_hash() function is NOT appliable here because it only hashes the object id to identify an object at runtime!