Ncbi_search_php is a project mainly written in PHP and PERL, it's free.
PHP to search multiple NCBI databases at once
AUTHOR: STEVEN C JACKSON
DESCRIPTION: Used to pull results from NCBI
USAGE: Deploy to a web server with PHP5 module
Extract the zip file and deploy to a webserver that has php5. The search engine code is in engine.php The rest of the files are html and css files for presentation If deployed on your own server and the zip folder root is maintainted point your server to: http://www.myserver.com/path/to/8550/index.php
To use the search engine, simply enter a query into the box. TO see results from different databases, simply click the tab that has the database name that you would like to search.
Issues: Taxonomy and sequence databases yield no results
Tried implementing SOAP via PHP and C#.Net but the connections for both failed. There is not very good documentation for the object necessar to pass to the wsdl for a proper query.
This search engine queries the databases by passing the database name and query term via GET and then parses the returned XML documents to present data to the user in a familiar format.
I added the additional component of linking to the source websites so that the suser may use this site like a traditional search engine and link off to the source page.
//NOTES
#var_dump($client);
#echo "<hr><hr>";
#var_dump($client->__getFunctions());
#echo "<hr><hr>";
#var_dump($client->__getTypes());
#echo "<hr><hr>";
#$query= array(
# "db" => "",
# "id" => "",
# "query_key" => "",
# "WebEnv" => "",
# "tool" => "",
# "email" => "",
# "retstart" => "",
# "retmax" => "",
# "rettype" => "",
# "strand" => "",
# "seq_start" => "",
# "seq_stop" => "",
# "complexity" => "",
# "report" => ""
#);
#echo "q1";
$query = '
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><SOAP-
ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
envelope/" xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:mime="http://
schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/
wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:s0="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/soap/eutils/" xmlns:wsdl="http://
schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:nsef="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
soap/eutils/efetch" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:tns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/soap/eutils/efetch" >
<SOAP-ENV:Body><tns:eFetchRequest xmlns:tns="http://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/soap/eutils/">
<tns:db>nucleotide</tns:db>
<tns:id>NM_010077</tns:id>
<tns:WebEnv></tns:WebEnv>
<tns:query_key></tns:query_key>
<tns:tool></tns:tool>
<tns:email></tns:email>
<tns:retstart></tns:retstart>
<tns:retmax></tns:retmax>
<tns:rettype></tns:rettype>
<tns:strand></tns:strand>
<tns:seq_start></tns:seq_start>
<tns:seq_stop></tns:seq_stop>
<tns:complexity></tns:complexity>
<tns:report></tns:report>
</tns:eFetchRequest>
</SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
';*/
#echo "q2";
#$results = $client->__call("run_eFetch", $query);
#echo "q3";
#print_r($client->__getLastRequest());
#print_r($client);
#print_r($client->__call("run_eFetch", "test"));
#print($client->efetch("atg"));
/*<s:element name="db" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="id" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="query_key" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="WebEnv" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="tool" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="email" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="retstart" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="retmax" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="rettype" type="s:string"/>
<s:element name="strand" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="seq_start" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="seq_stop" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="complexity" type="s:int"/>
<s:element name="report" type="s:string"/>