I have tried to amend the code quite a few times now but still no luck. Can I ask you to post a script for download that does image search? I understand to little of PHP to get this working my self. Or could you show exactly what to change in your script so that it does image search? I’d really, really, really appreciate it.

Sites should be added like yahoo.com,news.com,flickr.com etc

For News Search: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/News_Search.html

For Image Search : http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/Submit_Image_Queries.html

This must do!!

Thanks for sharing the code!

I’m having problems while trying to add multiple sites separated by commas.

I get “no results found” when I add more then one site.

What am I doing wrong?

Your script is great and I’m using it on my dutch search engine http://www.zoekzoeki.nl. But I also want to let my users do image and news search.
What do I need to change in order to get your script to retrieve images and news? When I change “web” into “images” or “news” I get all kinds of error messages. So I guess there is more to it then that. Can you tell me or even put up an amended script for image and news search?

@Mike You have to change the website address to your site without the http:// or the www and then try it. It must work. Its right now hardcoded to my site’s url. Just replace that with your site’s url. Also I run PHP5 . I have checked my code and it works fine.

Thank you for making your code available. I have done as you instructed (added my appid and website address) but cannot get the application to run. I have checked my appid against BOSS with a sample query string and receive XML results. Any suggestions?

Thank you for your time.

Mike

http://riteshnayak.com/morey.php?query=%22yahoo%22

After doing some reading it looks like the problem is due to the way your php is set up (the same for mine). Your php configuration has magic_quotes_gpc on, and this adds slashes before the quotes for the search query. To fix it the urlencode line needs to be changed to this:

$searchQuery = rawurlencode(stripslashes($_REQUEST['query']));

Here is more info on stripslashes:

http://www.php.net/stripslashes

Here is the updated result for the same search (“yahoo”) with my snoop search site:

http://www.snoopdizzle.com/?query=%22yahoo%22

I think it will be secure because the urlencode happens directly after. What do you think?

Thanks again for your wonderful example.

John

Thanks again,

John

For me it’s work great

can you make an example with a pictures also please ?

Thanks in advance

1. if you are trying my site search, then http://riteshnayak.com/boss.php is working fine. PHP and boss are returning about 4 results each. Python doesnt return anything coz I haven’t written anything abotu python. You can also try http://riteshnayak.com/morey_intro.html , its a generic yahoo search split into three columns.

2. If you are trying to run my code, then please re-download the source from my site. There was a small bug in the code, which I have fixed. If you want to fix the code yourself, then find the form tag and remove the action=”boss.php” and make it action=”" That should do the trick. Let me know if you have problems, also make sure you have your appid and your personal site address mentioned at the top of the code.

Ritesh