With all of the buzz that surrounded the recent Yahoo Developer Network search web service, it's no wonder that the PHP community has already sprung into action and produced a PHP 5 Client for Yahoo's Webservice API.

Our new member Daniel Wiegand (wiegi) implemented a PEAR compatible client for Yahoo's new REST-based webservice API. From the Yahoo developer site: "Yahoo! Search Web Services allow you to access Yahoo content and services in your favorite programming languages. This means you can now build Yahoo directly into your own applications." By using Daniel's PHP5 client you do not need to worry about the protocol or the resulting XML format, everything is done in plain PHP.

[...] Besides searchWeb() the client provides more methods to use the different web services offered by Yahoo: searchImages(), searchVideos(), searchNews(), and searchLocal().

The source is availible here and a PEAR-installable package here (requires PHP5, XML_Serializer and HTTP_Request).