When a search is effected it is possible to modify the URL from http://www.mysite.com/search.php?q=telephone to http://www.mysite.com/telephone ?
Thank you.
I have tried to make the changes, for example i'm search telephone, i dont have results but have error message 404.
Hi Ser,
What URL is in the address bar of your web browser when you get the 404?
It would mean one of two things:
If the URL is:
http://www.example.com/searchRedirect.php?q=telephone
...then it implies that the new script searchRedirect.php cannot be found.
If the URL is:
http://www.example.com/search/telephone/
...then it implies that possibily the code in .htaccess is not correct.
If this doesn't help you can email me the URL to your site and i'll take a look...
Cheers,
David.
Thanks it now works perfectly
You are always very kind and available
Hello Ser,
It's quite easy to make it work with a leading word search as "search" and a trailing forward slash (because of the way the follow on links work such as /2.html for page 2). To finish the URL on the end of the keyword would require significantly more modification.
To make a URL like:
http://www.mysite.com/search/telephone/
...first, you need to add the following rules to .htaccess
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)/$ search.php?q=$1&rewrite=1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]RewriteRule ^search/(.*)/(.*).html$ search.php?q=$1&page=$2&rewrite=1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Next, create a new file to handle the search form submit button and redirect the query to the re-written URL:
searchRedirect.php
<?phprequire("includes/common.php");
header("Location: ".$config_baseHREF."search/".urlencode($_GET["q"])."/");
exit();
?>
Finally, edit html/searchform.php to change the action attribute of the form to the new script:
<div class='searchform'><form name='search' action='<?php print $config_baseHREF ?>searchRedirect.php'>
<input type='text' name='q' size='35' value='<?php print (isset($q)?$q:""); ?>' />
<input type='submit' value='<?php print translate("Search"); ?>' />
</form>
</div>
That should do the trick!
Cheers,
David.