How to show searched keyword on page?

Amnesic · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 06:23 AM

How can you do something like:

You came here searching for XXXXX

groove · #2 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 08:58 AM

There is a plugin for this for wordpress. If you like, I can try to find it again...

**Chris Devon** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 09:10 AM

It's not so hard using php. Just look at the refferer, preg match the query, and echo the keywords

aaappp3 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 09:40 AM

Here's a preg-free version for those who hate preg (because it's crap and fails on some php installations):

PHP Code:


			 
$keyword='';

$ref=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

if (strpos($ref,'.google.')!==FALSE) { $keyword=$_GET['q']; }

else if (strpos($ref,'.yahoo.')!==FALSE) { $keyword=$_GET['p']; }

else if (strpos($ref,'.live.')!==FALSE) { $keyword=$_GET['q']; }

if ($keyword) { echo "You came here searching for $keyword"; }

It should be fairly obvious to anyone with basic php how to add other search engines.

**Chris Devon** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 09:58 AM

Sorry to ask, it may be a dumb question; are you sure this will work? I don't have time now to test it. The strpos part is confusing me. Doesn't strpos return a number

aaappp3 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 01:52 PM

Yes, strpos returns a number, but it'll also return FALSE if no match was found, all I'm doing is testing the referrer to see if it contains google or yahoo or whatever, if it does it returns a number, else it returns FALSE.

**forgot** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 10:47 AM

What do u actually asking, i cant understand