I love this software!
I'm sorry for asking so many questions but I stumbled upon a little issue with the search feature.
When someone looks up "blue jeans" they end up at a page with the title "blue jeans" and the url includes "blue-jeans". The problem I'd like to fix is that if someone also looks up "Blue Jeans" they end up on a page with the title "Blue Jeans" and the url includes "Blue-Jeans".
Both pages are identical of course but Google treats the url's as separate and doesn't always use the capitalized version so search results are mixed (in my case so far).
A quick conversion to capitalize the first letter of every searched word before passing it onto $q would be great, what would you suggest is the best way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Hello Steph,
URLs are a little tricker as bear in mind that the search.php?q=Key+Words is generated directly from what the user enters; so the safest way to adjust the keywords as they appear in the URL would actually be to add an intermediate handler script that redirects to a Name Cased version of the query.
The script would be simply (for example):
searchsubmit.php:
<?phprequire("includes/common.php");
$q = $_GET["q"];
$q = ucwords(strtolower($q));
header("Location: ".$config_baseHREF."search.php?q=".urlencode($q));
exit();
?>
And then in html/searchform.php, look for the following code on line 2:
<form name='search' action='<?php print $config_baseHREF ?>search.php'>...and REPLACE with:
<form name='search' action='<?php print $config_baseHREF ?>searchsubmit.php'>Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.