Re: Parsing search strings from referer urls?

T.J. Mahaffey wrote:

First time post, please be gentle. I'd like to be able to extract search strings from referer urls that come from search engines. (via php, of course) For example, http://www.google.com/search?q=foo+bar&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Now, I realize one might employ grep to pull out this information and its easy for a human to examine a url like the one above, but I'd like to programmatically present a nice, tidy list of search words used to generate the url. My gut says that one would need to write a function for each major search engine to parse out this information since each engine is unique in how it builds the url. However, I thought after poring over the manual and online docs/list and not finding a solution, and before I went off and reinvented the wheel, I would float the question and see what you fine folks have to say about the subject.

You will probably find parse_url() to be useful: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php <?php $url = "http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value&arg2=value&arg3=value3#anchor"; $parts = parse_url($url); $args = explode('&', $parts['query']); for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($args); $i++) { list($key, $value) = explode('=', $args[$i]); $query[$key] = urldecode($value); } print_r($query); ?> -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins