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   1  yahoolib 0.1   June 3rd, 2005
   2  Web site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoolib
   3  Author: Jason Levitt (fredb86@users.sourceforge.net)
   4  
   5  Yahoolib is a simple set of PHP functions that makes it easy to add Yahoo's search web services (developer.yahoo.net) to your PHP scripts.
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   8  
   9  The goals for these functions are:
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  11  1) One code base that works under both PHP4 and PHP5
  12  2) No PHP extensions required (only the XML extension is needed and it's almost always installed by default)
  13  3) Simple recursive parser that can be used with all the web services
  14  4) Submit either GET or POST requests programatically
  15  5) Return detailed errors from HTTP, Yahoo, and XML parsing
  16  6) Always return array type when parsing XML data defined as an array even if only one XML element is parsed
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  19  
  20  The file yahootools.inc.php contains three functions you can use to run Yahoo's search services:
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  22  XmlParser() -- takes a string of XML as input and returns the XML data as an associative array
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  24  GetData() -- takes a REST URL as input, submits it as an HTTP 1.0 GET request, and returns the result
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  26  PostData() -- takes a REST URL as input, submits it as an HTTP 1.0 POST request, and returns the result
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  30  To see things work, put both the files yahootools.inc.php and yahootest.php into the same directory on a web server and open the file yahootest.php in your web browser.
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  32  You can change the requests by editing the entries in the array $webservices in the file yahootest.php
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