Overture keyword suggestions

This class extracts the suggestion keywords from Overture (Yahoo! Search Marketing) together with their popularity counts.

<br /> <?php /** * @author Son Nguyen * @since 3/21/2006 * @package Framework * @subpackage WebServices */ class COvertureSuggest { private $mBaseWords; /** constructor */ function __construct($pBaseWords) { $this->mBaseWords = $pBaseWords;<br /> }</p> <p> /** return an array with this format: [keywords] => cnt */<br /> function getRelateds() {<br /> $vFile = ‘http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/’;<br /> $vFile .= ‘?term=’.urlencode($this->mBaseWords).’&mkt=us&lang=en_US’;<br /> $vFile = file_get_contents($vFile);<br /> $vFile = strip_tags($vFile);<br /> $vPat = “/ ([0-9]+)\n (.+)/i”;<br /> preg_match_all($vPat,$vFile,$vMatches);</p> <p> //var_dump($vMatches);die;<br /> $vCnts = $vMatches[1];<br /> $vWords = array();<br /> for ($i=0;$i<count($vMatches[2]);$i++) { $vWords[$vMatches[2][$i]] = intval($vCnts[$i]); } // rof return $vWords; } } // Sample Usage: $vSuggest = new COvertureSuggest('dalat'); var_dump($vSuggest->getRelateds());<br /> ?><br />

Sample Output:

array
  'dalat' => 1894
  'dalat resort' => 426
  'dalat nam viet' => 359
  'dalat palace sofitel' => 97
  'dalat hotel' => 91
  'dalat school' => 63
  'dalat flower' => 62
  'bi dalat vo' => 60
  'city dalat' => 59