---

";

  $num = ($num) ? $num : 15 ;

  $url = "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&num=$num&scoring=d&q=".urlencode($q);

  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING,"");
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

  $data = curl_exec($ch);

  curl_close ($ch);

// *******************
// Some people seem to have problems with google not returning anything
// uncomment the following lines and comment out the content-type header
// to see what google is returning.
  
//  print "";
//  print "
";
//  print htmlentities($data);  
  header("Content-Type: text/xml");

  $data = strstr($data,"Sorted by date");

  eregi("", $data, $title);
  $channel_title = $title[1];

  $match_count = preg_match_all($itemregexp, $data, $items);
  $match_count = ($match_count > 25) ? 25 : $match_count;
  
  $output .= "\n";
  $output .= "\n";
  $output .= "\n";

  $output .= "\n";
  $output .= "  \n";
  $output .= "    \n";
  $output .= "    ". htmlentities($url) ."\n";
  $output .= "    Google News Search: $q\n";
  $output .= "    julian_bond@voidstar.com\n";
  $output .= "    en-us\n";
  $output .= "    <a href=\"http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php\">GNews2Rss</a>\n";

  $day = date("d"); 
  if (false) {
//  if ($day == 1 || $day == 11 || $day == 21) {
    $output .= "    \n";
    $output .= "      \n";
    $output .= "      http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php\n";
    $output .= "      If you're using <a href=\"http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php\">Gnews2rss</a> you presumably find it useful. Please <a href=\"mailto:news-feedback@google.com\">email Google</a> asking them to produce RSS directly out of Google News Search. And why not <a href=\"http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php.txt\">host it yourself</a> to save my bandwidth costs.\n";
    $output .= "    \n";
  }

  for ($i=0; $i< $match_count; $i++) {

    $item_url = $items[1][$i];
    $title = $items[2][$i];
    $title = strip_tags($title);
    $desc = $items[3][$i];

    $desc = eregi_replace(" - .* ago
", "
", $desc);
    $desc = strip_tags($desc, $allowable_tags);
    $desc = htmlspecialchars($desc);

    $output .= "    \n";
    $output .= "      \n";
    $output .= "      ". htmlspecialchars($item_url) ."\n";
    $output .= "      ". $desc ."\n";
    $output .= "    \n";
  }

  $output .= "  \n";
  $output .= "\n";

  print $output;

//****************
// More debug stuff  
//  print "
";
//  print htmlentities($output);
//  print "
"; 

}


?>