Dec 08 2009
This is a memo, because at the moment I don’t need to use this new API from Google, but since it’s always necessary to track clicks, events, pageviews, user… and since I’ve always had to make my own stats for my clients, I think that for the next project I will have to user this Google Analytics API. I will start studying it from this tutorial.
In the Analytics blog there is this list of posts tagged for the API.
Nov 10 2009
If you have a user input that may contains some error you can try to check the spelling using Google Spelling Suggestion service (there is an api and you have to register to have an api key to use their web services).
But you can obtain the same result searching the Google search engine and parsing the html code to find the link after the phrase: “Did you mean“. You can think at this code as a mini web bot spell checker.
This code works in any language, it finds the anchor tag that has the classname set to “spell”:
echo doGoogleSpelling("wokipedia"); //returns "wikipedia"
function doGoogleSpelling($q) {
// grab google page with search
$web_page = file_get_contents( "http://www.google.it/search?q=" . urlencode($q) );
// put anchors tag in an array
preg_match_all('#<a([^>]*)?>(.*)</a>#Us', $web_page, $a_array);
for($j=0;$j<count($a_array[0]);$j++) {
// find link with spell suggestion and return it
if(stristr($a_array[0][$j],"class=spell")) return strip_tags($a_array[0][$j]);
}
return "";
}