Blog before you Think!

<?php
    // Snoopy is an HTTP client in PHP
    require_once('./Snoopy.class.inc');

    // build the URL for Simpy's REST API
    $url = 'http://www.simpy.com/simpy/api/rest/GetLinks.do?q=' . urlencode($_GET["q"]);

    // call the URL via Snoopy
    $client = new Snoopy();
    $client->agent = "bbyt simpysearch (snoopy)";
    $client->user = "yoursimpyusername";
    $client->pass = "yoursimpypassword";
    $client->fetch($url);

    // echo Simpy's response
    echo ($client->results);
?>

... include simpy.js somewhere in the head
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://path/to/simpy.js"></script>
...
<li>
<h2>Search
(powered by <a href="http://simpy.com/">Simpy</a>)
(firefox, opera, camino)</h2>
<form name="simpy" action="#" onSubmit="searchSimpy(); return false;">
<input name="q" size="19" value="" type="text">
<input name="submitsimpy" type="submit" value="go">
</form>
<ul id="results">
</ul>
</li>

var http_request = false;

function searchSimpy() {
    var searchterm = document.simpy.q.value;
    var url = "http://path/to/simpy.php?q=" + searchterm;
    makeRequest(url);
}

function makeRequest(url) {
    http_request = false;

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
        if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
        }
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
        try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        } catch (e) {
            try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
        }
    }

    if (!http_request) {
        return false;
    }
    http_request.onreadystatechange = injectResults;
    http_request.open('GET', url, true);
    http_request.send(null);
}

function injectResults() {
    if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
    
        var select = document.getElementById("results");
        select.innerHTML="";
        
        if (http_request.status == 200) {
            var links = http_request.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("link");

            for (i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
                var list = document.createElement('li');
                var link = document.createElement('a');
                link.appendChild(document.createTextNode(links[i].getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.data.replace("Blog before you Think!: ","")));
                link.setAttribute('href',links[i].getElementsByTagName('url')[0].firstChild.data);
                list.appendChild(link);
                select.appendChild(list);
            }
            
            if (links.length == 0) {
                var list = document.createElement('li');
                var link = document.createElement('a');
                link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("no result"));
                link.setAttribute('href','#');
                list.appendChild(link);   
                select.appendChild(list);    
            }

        } else {
            var list = document.createElement('li');
            var link = document.createElement('a');
            link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("no result"));
            link.setAttribute('href','#');
            list.appendChild(link);   
            select.appendChild(list);  
        }
    }
}