Shold be very simple: How to get a query?

cromagnon

Hi all,

I have implemented a script on my page, wich displays the Google Search Term that brought visitors to my Website.

Now I like to call this Search Term something, so I can pass it on to another page via $_GET

It should be quite simple, but I can not get it to work. The script look like this:

$referer= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

//find the search query from google that brought them here
$qref= strpos($referer,'google');

if (isset($SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
$query = array();
parse_str(parse_url($SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_QUERY), $query);
print $query['q'];
}

I seems like I cant just pni = $query

I am a little puzzled.

Can you help?

bradgrafelman

Can you output the value of $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and post it here for us to see?

cromagnon

Hi,

I am not sure I understand...?

The value could be anything that people have searched for in Google.

😕

bradgrafelman

I realize what the value in general contains, but I wanted to see an example value that's being passed so I could test possible suggestions against it.

cromagnon

Well, everything that people are searching for to get to the site:

Example "how to build muscles".

Ok?

zypher11

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) {
	parse_str($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $query);
	echo $query['q'];
}

unfortunately it appears anytime your directed to your page from google the HTTP_REFERER is always "http://www.google.com/". It doesnt include the query string

cromagnon

I see.

So it not possible to transfer the value of the google-search to another page? :queasy: