Well, since the opening of bing.com I’ve been playing with the API and some of the options it provides. Certainly I was getting annoyed since I had to rebuild each of my queries if I wanted something so I search for a library that could do this for me which I couldn’t find and I ended up writing my own.

Requirements: PHP5 and cURL

How to use this API? Here is a simple demonstration

// Include the Bing API PHP Library
require_once 'library/BingAPI.php';

// Simply start the class with your AppID argumented
$search = new BingAPI('YOUR APPID KEY');

// Build your query easily
/* To use multiple resources simply do ->setSources('Web+Image') ,
   it must match the source type
   bling.com provides */
$search->query('gimp')
       ->setSources('Web')
       ->setFormat('xml') /* Also you can try: xml, soap or json */
       ->setOptions(
             array(
                  'Web.Count' => '10',
                  'Web.Offset' => '0',
                  'Adult' => 'Moderate',
                  'Options' => 'EnableHighlighting')
    );
/* Check the API documentation in bing.com for more information */

/* This will give you a raw output */
echo $search>getResults();

I’d hope this little library makes your life easier :) Soon there’ll be a tracker if there are problems with it or you can comment here.

Download it now | Check the documentation | Get a Developer API Key

Heads up: There will be soon a better way to issue bugs

Any issues: http://bingapiphp.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx
Project Homepage

About SOAP Implementation

It seems I have made silly mistake with SOAP, there is actually no current SOAP implementation and it will be supplied soon.

8 people like this post.

Like 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm and is filed under PHP, Programming, Projects. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.