Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing search strings from referer urls?

[Jennifer Goodie]

 -- Original message --
From: Jason Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> T.J. Mahaffey wrote:
> > First time post, please be gentle.
> 
> You will probably find parse_url() to be useful:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php
> 
>  
> $url = 
> "http://username:[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]/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);
> 
> ?>
parse_str will take care of turning the query string into key/value pairs
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php

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[PHP] Re: Parsing search strings from referer urls?

[Jason Barnett]

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

$url = 
"http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/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);
?>
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