Display the search query in the URL

[joecooper]

My website is http://www.mp3joe.com

 

I have some rewrite rules setup so if you went to http://www.mp3joe.com/eminem then it would search "eminem".

 

I need to be able to set the URL to the query like above when the user enters it into the search query box. This is so users can bookmark searches.

 

How could I go about doing this?

 

Thanks

[Rifts]

pass the information from the search box via get not post

[Kingy]

As Rifts said you can use GET variables with the search form 

 

 

 

<form method="GET" action="...">
<input type="text" name="searchterm">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search">
</form>
 

 

and that way when the end user hits search the url will look like:

yourdomain.com/?searchterm=eminem

 

You could then easily use mod_rewrite to turn those urls into yourdomain.com/search/eminem or something similar.

Edited April 8, 2013 by Kingy

[joecooper]

Thanks a lot! I don't know how I didn't already know this!

 

Got it working, except that the query adds +'s inbetween words. I have handled this in PHP, but my rewrite script seems to not forward it correctly when +'s are added.

[mac_gyver]

the browser is urlencoding all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. (dash, underscore, dot).  a space becomes a + in the url. the $_GET data is automatically urldecoded before it is passed to your script -
 

Note:
The GET variables are passed through urldecode().

you shouldn't need to do anything special to get the data to work as expected.