<?php
/***************************************
Google News Grabber v2
by jordie bodlay
www.revolutiontech.com.au
jbodlay@revolutiontech.com.au

Feel free to use for non-commercial reasons.
Use of google content is subject to google
copyrights. Use at your own risk.

I, jordie bodlay, take no responsibility
for how this script is used by anyone.
By downloading and using this script the
downloader/user accepts any responsibility
for any copyright infringement or any
other misuse.


****************************************/

// required variables
$resultCount = '7'; //maxes out at around 10
$siteURL = 'http://news.google.com/?topic=w';

// To change the layout of the output, please navigate down
// further.


function openSite($website){

$readSite = "";
// trick google into thinking we are just a normal user
ini_set('user_agent','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');

if($openSite = fopen ($website,"r&quot){
while(!feof($openSite)){
$readSite .= fread($openSite, 4096);
}
fclose($openSite);
}else{

echo "Couldn't open $website...";
}
return $readSite;

}


$google = openSite($siteURL);

preg_match_all("|<td valign=top><a href=\"(.*)\" id=r-[0-9]><b>(.*)</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f><b>(.*)-</font> <nobr>(.*)</nobr>|Ui",$google,$result);

/*

Output info:
$result[0] - complete results, just junk, not always useable
$result[1] - Array of news URL's
$result[2] - Array of news headlines
$result[3] - Array of news sources
$result[4] - Array of posted times

*/

echo "<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1>";

for ($i = 0; $i <= $resultCount; $i++) {

/* Change display format here.
The beginning of the table is just above the loop.
The end is just at the end of the loop */

?>
<TR>
<TD><font size=-1 face='times new roman'><B>&#149;</B></TD>
<TD><font size=-1 face='times new roman'><a href="<?=$result[1][$i]?>" target="_blank"><?=$result[2][$i]?></a> - <?=$result[3][$i]?> (<?=$result[4][$i]?&gt</TD>
</TR>
<?

}

echo "</table>";
?>