Please forgive me if this is a repost. It did not appear for over 24 hours
after I posted it. I changed the subject line in case the spam filters
blocked it due to killwords in the subject...
This may be a very stupid question, but I did search online and not find the
answer. I saw examples of Flash apps (eg the quite fun Guess-the-Google
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/ game) that grab images
from Google Image search, but I couldn't find any coding examples. I don't
even know if the right way to do it is stupidly low-tech (by making a query
string URL and parsing the page Google returns) or involves web services
etc. (which I have never used).
I am supposed to call the potential client tonight to tell her whether I can
do it and how much work is involved etc. She hired someone else a few years
ago (a "professional programmer" on her campus IT staff) to do it who was
unable to figure out how to grab Google images and incorporate them into the
page. He used Javascript/DHTML as the front end. I intend to use Flash as
there are many multimedia elements.
I have a potential client who wants their site to incorporate Google Image
Search results. I have never used Google web services or their APIs, so I
don't know how much work this will involve and what server side resources
are required. I will be using Flash 8 and PHP (if necessary).
Also, do people use the Flash webservices component/class for anything
real or does one always end up doing one's own server-side coding (aside
from wrapping the web services call to get around security restrictions)?
Is there a reason to use a web service rather than constructing a query
string and parsing the results?
Forgive me if this is newbieish. I am a server side newbie, but not an
Actionscript newbie.
Millie Niss
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