Search term loggin

TlcAndres · 02-12-2008, 02:27 AM

I imagine it's possible, logging the search term that was used to visit your site. Does anyone have any good examples.

Wildhoney · 02-12-2008, 02:32 AM

You would check the HTTP referrer and then extract the search term from the relevant GET parameter.

Wildhoney · 02-12-2008, 03:05 AM

Something like the following will do it for Google:

php Code:

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
    if(preg_match('~&q=(?P<term>[^&]+)~i', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $aMatches))
    {
        echo 'Search term: ' . urldecode($aMatches['term']);
    }
}

TlcAndres · 02-12-2008, 11:01 AM

Ah, ok thanks Wild.