I am building a restaurant review site using php. I wanted to know how to show reviews from other reviews sites. For example check this link to see how google is picking up reviews from other sites. When clicked on, it takes you to their review site.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
First, make a list of the sites that you want to pull reviews from. Second, read through those sites and see if they have a developer section and if they expose a public API. If they do, look around to see if they have any client libraries for php which you can use to access their API from your php site. If they do have an API but there are no client libraries available, contribute to the community by creating a client library and sharing it as open source. :)
Also, it may be possible that they have an RSS feed of their reviews that you can consume easily of your site, so check that out too.
You will probably find the other sites have partnered with Google for this, however I would be using cURL to get the information you want.
I would suggest you start here with cURL, then have a look here to extract the portion you're looking for.
Edit: the section of the second link that is relevant is
preg_match_all("/<div>.+<\/div>/", $page, $matches);
print_r($matches);
What this is doing is getting the content you're looking for and then displaying it, you will probably need to define the unique elements with the content you want however, this could mean a separate rule for each website.
I hope this helps for you.
I think google find News, Blog , Reviews and something like that by site map what web administrators introduce to google as sitemap.xml .
To do this you must get page content what you want to fetch it's reviews ( By CURL or something like that to get remote file ) and fetch reviews by regular expression of HTML
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What I am trying to do is to make something similar to what I see all the time on almost any website. The button that says Share to facebook. The goal for me is to let my guests share the item they are viewing in my store (Ran on prestashop) on their blog I run (Running on Oxwall).
The goal is for the button to not only link to a blog post submission webpage but to already have the subject line filled out with the item they are sharing's name and the blog post to display the information about the item. I would like to try and do all this using PHP. I am not sure how to go about doing it but I am sure that I could pass the value. Please note that I can mod BOTH the blog site and the shop as I run both and want to connect them.
As an extra bonus I am also running a forum using phpbb3 if I could do the same thing but onto that as well I would greatly thank you. I am trying to interlink everything into one big network. I know its not an easy task but I am sure there is an easy way to pass data onto the other site so that this can be done.
Facebook a 2 tools to get items informations in the page, it parses the page looking for the most common tags and it uses OpenGraph.
You can also provide product informations in the head of your page (between head tags), then blog side, you retrieve only the contents and parse it as XML.
I advise you to cache this data to avoid useless connections between websites and awful overloads while parsing.
You can use your own specifications, Open Graph or another standard, but i advise to use a standard.
I am Working in PHP MySql project, I Have A Page Called Live Information, And Client need this page to function like all the information from different blogs related to some specific topic must be displayed on this page.
So Any Direction On how can it be done?
If the blogs give out an RSS feed you can use an RSS library like Magpie to get at the data.
If they don't, you'll need to get their HTML and parse. You'll most probably have to write a parser for each site. Have a look at web scraping.
I was looking at websites like http://itstrending.com/, facediggs.com/ and I'm questioning myself how do they extract the most shared topics from facebook? I would like to build a similar widget for my blog. I searched the API but couldn't find anything.
I have no idea, but here are more sites that might provide additional insight into what you're looking for: http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/facebook-search-services/
I found this page which is worth looking at
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/323
Half way down this page is a url you can use to check pages on your site, it returns xml with some good stats. Hope this helps.
Running an FQL (Facebook Query Language) query on the link_stat table.
Below: example url to put in your browser and press enter.
It returns xml with true and a count which you can use however you like. This returned 957 last time I tried it. Be carefull using quotes around the url you want to query.
How many facebook shares (total) does stackoverflow have?
Another example with 2 urls
If I search the word in Google is "twitter".
Google displays the first result like the below.
Twitter
Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.
twitter.com/ - Cached - Similar
Search How To Contest Account Suspension
Blog An API
Twitter_logo_header Twitter Status
More results from twitter.com »
How can they display Search, blog, Twitter_logo_header, etc.?
These links are called Site Links, and point to highly rated pages on your domain.
Usually these links are created automatically if your site is strong enough for a specific keyword, and you can tweak it a little by blocking pages you don't want to appear there from Google Webmaster Tools (http://google.com/webmasters) under 'Site Configuration', 'Sitelinks'.
More information on this topic available at the following Google help page - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&hl=en
This page explains how search engines like Google work:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/search-engine.htm
It's something google decides to do on its own. There is no way you can force them to do it with your site. They will do it if they find it appropriate.
I am creating a classifieds website.
Im storing all ads in mysql database, in different tables.
Is it possible to find these ads somehow, from googles search engine?
Is it possible to create meta information about each ad so that google finds them?
How does major companies do this?
I have thought about auto-generating a html-page for each ad inserted, but 500thousand auto-generated html pages doesn't really sound that good of a solution!
Any thoughts and idéas?
UPDATE:
Here is my basic website so far:
(ALL PHP BASED)
I have a search engine which searches database for records.
After finding and displaying search results, you can click on a result ('ad') and then PHP fetches info from the database and displays it, simple!
In the 'put ad' section of my site, you can put your own ad into a mysql database.
I need to know how I should make google find ads in my website also, as I dont think google-crawler can search my database just because users can.
Please explain your answers more thoroughly so that I understand fully how this works!
Thank you
Google doesn't find database records. Google finds web pages. If you want your classifieds to be found then they'll need to be on a Web page of some kind. You can help this process by giving Google a site map/index of all your classifieds.
I suggest you take a look at Google Basics and Creating and submitting SitemapsPrint
. Basically the idea is to spoon feed Google every URL you want Google to find. So if your reference your classifieds this way:
http://www.mysite.com/classified?id=1234
then you create a list of every URL required to find every classified and yes this might be hundreds of thousands or even millions.
The above assumes a single classified per page. You can of course put 5, 10, 50 or 100 on a single page and then create a smaller set of URLs for Google to crawl.
Whatever you do however remember this: your sitemap should reflect how your site is used. Every URL Google finds (or you give it) will appear in the index. So don't give Google a URL that a user couldn't reach by using the site normally or that you don't want a user to use.
So while 50 classifieds per page might mean less requests from Google, if that's not how you want users to use your site (or a view you want to provide) then you'll have to do it some other way.
Just remember: Google indexes Web pages not data.
How would you normally access these classifieds? You're not just keeping them locked up in the database, are you?
Google sees your website like any other visitor would see your website. If you have a normal database-driven site, there's some unique URL for each classified where it it displayed. If there's a link to it somewhere, Google will find it.
If you want Google to index your site, you need to put all your pages on the web and link between them.
You do not have to auto-generate a static HTML page for everything, all pages can be dynamically created (JSP, ASP, PHP, what have you), but they need to be accessible for a web crawler.
Google can find you no matter where you try to hide. Even if you can somehow fit yourself into a mysql table. Because they're Google. :-D
Seriously, though, they use a bot to periodically spider your site so you mostly just need to make the data in your database available as web pages on your site, and make your site bot-friendly (use an appropriate robots.txt file, provide a search engine-friendly site map, etc.) You need to make sure they can find your site, so make sure it's linked to by other sites -- preferably sites with lots of traffic.
If your site only displays specific results in response to search terms you'll have a harder time. You may want to make full lists of the records available for people without search terms (paged appropriately if you have lots of data).
First Create a PHP file that pulls the index plus human readable reference for all records.
That is your main page broken out into categories (like in the case of Craigslist.com - by Country and State).
Then each category link feeds back to the php script the selected value regardless of level(s) finally reaching the ad itself.
So, If a category is selected which contains more categories (like states contain cities) Then display the next list of categories. Else display the list of ads for that city.
This will give Google.com a way to index a site (aka mysql db) dynamically with out creating static content for the millions (billions or trillions) of records involved.
This is Just an idea of how to get Google.com to index a database.