Extract &q=keywords&

[stevent226]

Hi everyone,

I would like to display what Google keywords visitor used to my landing page.
for example if the search word was "sportwear"
it will echo "Thank you for visiting my page using keyword sportwear"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sportwear&btnG=Search

I guess it needs to use some command to GET the line, history or refer link
compare to identify the beginning of &q=, extract the keyword until
the end of &btnG,

and <? php echo it on the landing page. ?>

anyone can help me with this?

[bpat1434]

I don't believe you can do this. The only thing I think you could do is know that it came from google via the referer header (and yes, referrer is spelled wrong on purpose for the HTML header). As for getting the keywords, I don't think you can do it. You could probably get the Google analytics stuff on your site to track how many people come from google and possibly have google track what keywords they searched for; however, I have never used them so I'm not sure what stuff it can do.

In order to get that query-string, you'd have to have the URL to your homepage look like: domain.tld/?q=keywords&btnG=Search which you probably don't want.

[stevent226]

I'd seen some websites able to extract the q= keywords
form the google referrer

and website hided the code so I'm sure there are some command
I can use on php to get or read the google link referrer...

anyone else knows how?😕😉

big thanks.

[bpat1434]

You could have a look in the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and see what that shows. But not all browsers will actually set this, and it is possible to "fake" and even modify this header.

If the HTTP_REFERER header is actually set from Google, then you'd want these two functions:
[man]parse_url/man and [man]parse_str/man to easily mimick the $_GET array. Something like:

$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
parse_str(parse_url($referrer, PHP_URL_QUERY), $get);

// Just printing to show results
print_r($get);

[stevent226]

i put $str = $SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ; echo $str;
$SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] does echos the entire http:// string
Now I need to be able to just to extract the q= keyward part...
but don't know how...

[bpat1434]

read my previous post.... I told you how... 🙁

[stevent226]

tested it works. but how can I just need to print the q= part?

[bpat1434]

once again... READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR THE FUNCTIONS!! Look at my post from 2 posts ago, the one with [man]parse_url[/man] and [man]parse_str[/man]... it will give you what you want.

[stevent226]

I use this line just to get the q= part.

thanks a lot for your help...

parse_str($referrer); echo $q;