I'm creating a new website - TheWorldNewsHeadlines.com - which brings up news results from google, msn and yahoo...
I have used pricetapestry to handle the search facility and magicparser to display the results and everything seems to be working fine with single word searches...
If I enter a search, lets say Iraq War...nothing comes up...
Iraq search here works fine - http://www.theworldnewsheadlines.com/search.php?q=Iraq
I am using the following details to pull up the results:
<?php
require("MagicParser.php");
function myRecordHandler($record)
{
print "<b><font size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><a href='".$record["LINK"]."'>".$record["TITLE"]."</a></font></b>";
print "<br><font size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>".$record["TITLE"]."</font></br>";
print "<hr noshade='noshade' color='F0F0F0'>";
}
$url = "http://news.google.com/news?q=$q&output=RSS&ned=us&lang=en";
MagicParser_parse($url,"myRecordHandler","xml|RSS/CHANNEL/ITEM/");
?>
Can you see anything im doing wrong...this is the first time i've parsed RSS feeds and can't figure it out?!
Thanks
Adam
Hello Adam,
I think this is because you need to urlencode your value for $q when you construct your URL. Otherwise, the URL is invalid and I think Google will be returning nothing.
Where you make $url, just change it to this:
$url = "http://news.google.com/news?q=".urlencode($q)."&output=RSS&ned=us&lang=en";Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.