Googlefight

Googlefight implementation by mutante

function googlefight($term1, $term2) {

       $url1 = "http://www.google.de/search?q=" . $term1;
       $url2 = "http://www.google.de/search?q=" . $term2;

       $buffer1 = file_get_contents($url1);

       $pieces1 = explode("hr ", $buffer1);
       $piece1 = $pieces1[1];

       $pieces2 = explode("", $piece1);

       $hits1 = $pieces2[0];
       $hits1 = str_replace(".", "", $hits1);
       if (!is_numeric($hits1)) {
               $hits1 = 0;
       }

       $buffer2 = file_get_contents($url2);

       $pieces1 = explode("hr ", $buffer2);
       $piece1 = $pieces1[1];

       $pieces2 = explode("", $piece1);
       $hits2 = $pieces2[0];
       $hits2 = str_replace(".", "", $hits2);

       if (!is_numeric($hits2)) {
               $hits2 = 0;
       }

       $hits1 = intval($hits1);
       $hits2 = intval($hits2);

       if ($hits1 > $hits2) {
        $hits1 = number_format($hits1);
        $hits2 = number_format($hits2);
       $output .= "Googlefight: '$term1' beat '$term2' with $hits1 to $hits2 hits.";
       }
       elseif ($hits1 == 0 AND $hits2 == 0) {
        $hits1 = number_format($hits1);
        $hits2 = number_format($hits2);
       $output .= "Googlefight: No results, both terms dont have any hits. ($hits1)";
       }
       elseif ($hits1 == $hits2) {
        $hits1 = number_format($hits1);
        $hits2 = number_format($hits2);
       $output .= "Googlefight: Draw! Both terms have the same number of hits. ($hits1)";
        }
        elseif ($hits2 > $hits1) {                                                                               
        $hits1 = number_format($hits1);
        $hits2 = number_format($hits2);
        $output .= "Googlefight: '$term2' beat '$term1' with $hits2 to $hits1 hits.";
       } else {
       $output .= "Googlefight: unknown error fnord";
       }

       return $output;

} </HighlightSyntax>

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