I just got started with Google API for Custom Search Engine, and I have succeded on doing my first request like this:
My_first_Search.php
require_once 'apis/apiClient.php';
require_once 'apis/contrib/apiCustomsearchService.php';
session_start();
$client = new apiClient();
$client->setApplicationName('Google CustomSearch PHP Starter Application');
// Docs: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/using_rest.html
// My developer key (simple api key).
$client->setDeveloperKey('***********************************');
$search = new apiCustomsearchService($client);
// executing a search with your custom search id.
$result = $search->cse->listCse('burrito', array(
'cx' => '123456789123546789:*******', // The custom search engine ID to scope this search query.
));
print "<pre>" . print_r($result, true) . "</pre>";
// executing a search with the URL of a linked custom search engine.
$result = $search->cse->listCse('burrito', array(
'cref' => 'http://www.google.com/cse/samples/vegetarian.xml',
));
print "<pre>" . print_r($result, true) . "</pre>";
The output: This file output the results correctly for the keyword burrito in a JSON format
How can I desalinize then manipulate the result using a for-each loop to get:
- Result title
- Result description
- URL
Click here to see the JSON output to be manipulated
Any help would be highly appreciated.
your "this file" is not outputting json. JSON is the textual representation of a variable assignment in JS,. e.g. the right-hand side of var x = ...json here.... That dump is a PHP data structure, which has been produced by decoding a json string.
in other words, don't get hung up on the fact that you're getting JSON - once it's decoded, it's just another PHP array, and you use normal PHP array operations and indexes to get at your data.
e.g.
$arr['queries']['nextPage'][0]['title'] // Google Custom Search - burrito