404 redirecting to a search page

[etrader]

How can I write a 404 file to redirected any 'not found' page with structure of example.com/something/more/final.html to example.com/search?q=something+more+final 

 

Thanks 

[cyberRobot]

You should be able to break apart the URL with explode():

 

//GET THE CURRENT URL
$url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

//BREAK APART THE URL
$urlPieces = explode('/', $url);

//LOOP THROUGH THE URL PIECES
foreach($urlPieces as $currPiece) {
    echo "<li>$currPiece</li>";
}

 

 

You'll need to replace the echo statement in the foreach loop with whatever formatting you need to get the search query. Then just redirect the page.

[etrader]

Thanks for your kind assistance. My problem is that

$url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

considers the error page at "http://mysite.com/404.php" instead of the misspelled url.

 

For example, if someone write "http://mysite.com/something-wrong.html",

$url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo $url;

will show "http://mysite.com/404.php

[cyberRobot]

Sorry about that, for the error 404 page we use:

getenv("REQUEST_URI")

[etrader]

Thanks a million, it works perfectly