Show Search Result Count in Homepage outside of WordPress

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I have a short question regarding showing information from WordPress outside of the WordPress installation: For a project at the company I work, I need a Script that shows up the search result count of a wordpress blog, outside of it. What I mean is a separate website, that is used as a metasearch engine (searches in different blogs), I have to show the search result number from a wordpress blog. There are different approaches that I have in mind. I could maybe use Tip Nr. 8 from this Smashing Magazine Article:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06 … oop-hacks/

which means creating my own WordPress Loop using The WP_Query Object in a File at the root folder and then inlude this php file in the separate website? or as a second approach I could try and modify this script from the wordpress forum:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226572?replies=15

so that it pulls, not the the number of posts in the WP database but the search results count. Only I don’t know how to achieve it.

Of course the query:

Code:

// …Formulate the query
$query = "
SELECT *
FROM `wp_posts`
WHERE `post_status` = 'publish'
AND `post_password` = ''
AND `post_type` = 'post'";

// …Perform the query
$result = mysql_query( $query );

// …Check results of the query and terminate the script if invalid results
if ( !$result ) {
$message = 'Invalid query.' . "n";
$message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query ." n";
die ( $message );
}

// Init a variable for the number of rows of results
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows( $result );

// Print the number of posts
echo "$num_rows Posts";

hast to be different, but I´m really not a php master.

I know i have to you include the wp-load.php in the external files (website outside wordpress) and then it is
possible to use all WP-functions, also the Loop. I know also I can search with
wp_query when you include that file, but how exactly?

Thank you very much for your support! Thanks!

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