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My New Photo Site has approximately 475 albums. Each album has manually coded RSS feeds. Now submitting that much RSS feeds, one by one, into Google Webmaster Tool’s interface is quiet painful.

So, I digged into Google’s GDATA API Code provided by Zend Framework. It’s very easy to submit google sitemap using php coding.

Steps:-
(1) Download Zend FrameWork
(2) Download GData API
(3) Write the code written @ end of the post into your php file & save it on path /demos/Zend/Gdata & run it.

Google needs RDF data tobe submitted to  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/feeds/www.yoursite.com/sitemap using POST request.

RDF format for submitting sitemaps is,

<atom:entry>
<atom:id>http://www.example.com/sitemap-index.xml</atom:id>
<atom:category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'
term='http://schemas.google.com/webmasters/tools/2007#sitemap-regular'/>
<wt:sitemap-type>WEB</wt:sitemap-type>
</atom:entry>

You need to change http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml with your sitemap location dynamically using php.

Above XML was creating some parsing errors before submitting POST request because it has no name-space.

So, I googled some different xml for submitting SiteMap,

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:wt="http://schemas.google.com/webmasters/tools/2007">
<id>http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml</id>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://schemas.google.com/webmasters/tools/2007#sitemap-regular'/>
<wt:sitemap-type>WEB</wt:sitemap-type>
</entry>

So final php code became.

<?php

require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata');
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin');
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_Gapps');

// Provide Google Account Information
$email = 'youremail@gmail.com';
$passwd = 'xxxxxxxx';
$service      = 'sitemaps';

// Try to connect
try {
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($email, $passwd, $service);
} catch (Zend_Gdata_App_CaptchaRequiredException $cre) {
echo 'URL of CAPTCHA image: ' . $cre->getCaptchaUrl() . "n";
echo 'Token ID: ' . $cre->getCaptchaToken() . "n";
} catch (Zend_Gdata_App_AuthException $ae) {
echo 'Problem authenticating: ' . $ae->exception() . "n";
}

add_sitemap($sitemap-location,$client);

function add_sitemap($sitemap-location,$client){
$xml ='<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:wt="http://schemas.google.com/webmasters/tools/2007"><id>'.$sitemap-location.'</id>';
$xml.="<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://schemas.google.com/webmasters/tools/2007#sitemap-regular'/><wt:sitemap-type>WEB</wt:sitemap-type></entry>";
$fdata = new Zend_Gdata($client);
$result=$fdata->post($xml,"https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/feeds/http://yoursite%2Ecom%2F/sitemaps/",null,"application/atom+xml");
}

?>

Here is a project.

Bollysite has lots of cool backend/frontend stuff  to give latest updated news as well as good User Interaction to the user.

Finally, one of my frontend engineering work Bollysite movies, get featured on Google Code Blog.

For every movies information, I didn’t have any image into my database. So, first I tried Flickr API to get relevant images to movies. But Flickr failed to deliver relevant images for old movies.

So, finally I try for Google Image Search API. First result on Google was relevant to every odd/old movies.

Then, I just needed to tweak API to get only first result. I could find that function google.search.ImageSearch.RawCompletion returns raw output.

So, I override that function with my custom function.

google.search.ImageSearch.RawCompletion = function(arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4){
if(typeof(arg2.results[0].tbUrl) != "undefined"){
movieImage = new Image();
movieImage.src = arg2.results[0].tbUrl; // Here first image will come
// now you can use movieImage.src to anywhere....
}
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);

So, now google powers every movie images to BollySite Movies