Question

I am building a restaurant review site using php. I wanted to know how to show reviews from other reviews sites. For example check this link to see how google is picking up reviews from other sites. When clicked on, it takes you to their review site.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

You will probably find the other sites have partnered with Google for this, however I would be using cURL to get the information you want.

I would suggest you start here with cURL, then have a look here to extract the portion you’re looking for.

Edit: the section of the second link that is relevant is

preg_match_all("/<div>.+<\/div>/", $page, $matches);
print_r($matches);

What this is doing is getting the content you’re looking for and then displaying it, you will probably need to define the unique elements with the content you want however, this could mean a separate rule for each website.

I hope this helps for you.