It’s been a great day! And if your day wasn’t good, I’d hope this make your day. Today I’m happy to announce release of Bing API PHP. The first version really helped a lot didn’t it? This version helps you even more, now introducing setHighlightFormat($start, $end, $sources). If EnableHighlighting is enabled on your query and you use this function it will automatically format the highlighted word with your desired html element (e.g.: div, span, p). Here’s the list of changes
- Removed urlencode from the library, you must use urlencode when querying since it won’t do it automatically
- Removed setProxy and added something more flexible, that is setCurlArray(array()), check the php.net manual on what to put in the array.
- Added setHighlightFormat() as I explained before this helpful function will aid you with bing.com’s highlight unicode chars (U+E000 and U+E001)
- Another addition is getRequestedQueryURL. This is something I needed most when I was querying the server, this will return you something similar to this: http://api.search.live.net/xml.aspx?AppId=YOUR APP ID&Query=da&Sources=Image&Image.Count=20&Image.Offset=0&Image.Filters=Size:Small&Adult=Moderate&Options=EnableHighlighting
- Now another function is resetHighlight($source), bing.com returns your search with extra characters in the title, this will help you remove them. Optional function.
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After this post, there is a next one coming in a few hours showing examples of this library and SimpleXML and more.
Thank you for writing this!
What would you say are the major differences between your library and the one over on Codeplex? (bingapiphp.codeplex.com) I know its still early in the process… just curious.
My apologies… its the same. Perhaps you should consolidate the two locations so as to deter future confusion. Thanks again!
I’m the one that should be apoligizing, it’s been quite a mess, but yes official bingapiphp.codeplex.com is now the official homepage of the project.
It’s because, if you have noticed one the timeline of the project there has been a few movements with such a short time.
I’d hope it helps you deploy your application :)