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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Can I Get The Search Phrase From Google?
I want to make several uses of the search phrase that users used in google in order to reach my site.
$referer= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //find the search query from google that brought them here $qref= strpos($referer,’google’); if($qref!=”){ $qstart = strpos($referer,’q=’); $qend = strpos($referer,’&’,$qstart); $qtext= substr($referer,$qstart+2,$qend-$qstart-2); $qtext= str_replace(‘+’,’ ‘,$qtext); } echo $qtext
However, note that Google has now stopped sending the query string in their referrer for all logged in users. So your functionality will work only for users who are logged out of Google . Here is more information on this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html
Use the HTTP_REFERER server variable.
ReplyDelete$referer= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
//find the search query from google that brought them here
$qref= strpos($referer,’google’);
if($qref!=”){
$qstart = strpos($referer,’q=’);
$qend = strpos($referer,’&’,$qstart);
$qtext= substr($referer,$qstart+2,$qend-$qstart-2);
$qtext= str_replace(‘+’,’ ‘,$qtext);
}
echo $qtext
Taken from here.
You can use the code below:
ReplyDelete$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if (!empty($referrer)) {
$parts_url = parse_url($referrer);
$query = isset($parts_url['query']) ? $parts_url['query'] : '');
if($query) {
parse_str($query, $parts_query);
$ref_keywords = isset($parts_query['q']) ? $parts_query['q'] : (isset($parts_query['query']) ? $parts_query['query'] : '' ));
}
}
However, note that Google has now stopped sending the query string in their referrer for all logged in users. So your functionality will work only for users who are logged out of Google . Here is more information on this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html
I reckon it should be in the referrer, as the they append the search string to the url via the q-parameter.
ReplyDeleteYou can get it from the "HTTP_referer" in the request.($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];)
ReplyDeletesee also another question regarding the topic