User:Klumsy/Google

OVERVIEW

basically use the google API (with uses SOAP) to get results , and include it in the page.

how would it be googled

   <google> any valid google search </google>
   <google> any valid google search | options </google>

where options may be formatting, or number of rows etc

ISSUES

• how many rows returned
• how to style it (how to use a special CSS for just this, or maybe one

of the wikimedia common style elements?

• Caching results
• PHP doesn't have SOAP bindings naturally.

RESOURCES

• http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google.public.web-apis - google groups on google web api
• http://www.google.com/apis/ - API
• http://scripts.incutio.com/google/ -php google script usese PEAR SOAP API
• http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/ - nuSOAP php SOAP library
• http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000022.php
• http://promoxy.mirrors.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/920.html - good example i think

PROGRESS

• initial research did
• found got initial prototype working. can be accessed via http://blesses.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Google_page .

FURTHER IDEA

• <googlelinkback/> will do a google search that finds all the links to the current page.. maybe two versions of this, one that lists them inline.. and one that rather creates a link that when clicked does the google search(this one wouldn't require the soap API)

User:Klumsy/Google/subsub

• still in research stage