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PHP - What Search Engines See
Search engines don't see the php programming of a site, they only see the output, right? What we see when we "View Source" of a webpage?
Similar TutorialsHi there, I am designing a PHP MYSQL web site and I want all pages to appear in search engines. I have seen a web site listed in a search engine with a link like: www.website.co.uk/product.php/4478/ If the number is changed to 4477 then a different product is loaded. How does this work? I thought the link needed a question mark (?) in the link to pass the information and I thought this was bad news in terms of SearchEngineOptimisation? I am aware that if the link passed 4478 in the URL along with a question mark (?) in the URL it would load that product also but IT WOULD NOT APPEAR IN SEARCH ENGINES. Is this a common way around the search engine issue and how does it work??? Are there other, perhaps better ways to design my links and also the Search Engine prospects for the web site I am creating? Thanks, Matt. This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=347958.0 Hi, A web site designed about 5 years ago is doing well in search engines but I am designing a new web site using PHP, CSS and MySQL. The old site was HTML and CSS. Do you have any design tips for Search Engines Optimisation when using PHP and MySQL? --- I will start coding soon, so all tips will be used. Thanks, Matt. Search Engines punish us for having "links" pages because some people do this to promote sites to raise their search rankings. I don't do that for the same reason. I want to recommend certain sites to my guests but I don't want to get punished for doing so. I might have a solution. (So, in addition to asking about the php code that I would need, I'm also asking if the following trick will even work to avoid getting punished in my ranking.) Instead of the traditional. . . Code: [Select] <p><a href="http://www.phpfreaks.com">PHP Freaks</a></p> I thought I would try something like this. . . Code: [Select] <!-- SEARCH ENGINES --> <form name="myform" action="http://www.mywebsite.com/searchformhandler.php" method="POST"> <div align="center"> <select name="searchengineselection"> <option value="http://www.bing.com/">Bing</option> <option value="http://www.dogpile.com">Dog Pile</option> <option value="http://www.google.com">Google</option> <option value="http://www.startpage.com">Start Page</option> </select> <input type="submit" name="searchengineselection" value="Insert"> </div> </form> These are only example sites. I have a whole page of suggested websites to send my guests to. Now, if this is a good idea, I'll need to create a file called, "searchformhandler.php." I think I know enough to figure out how to echo the right substitute code, I just don't know how to execute it. I'm rusty. There's got to be a command to open a web page. I don't think I would do some like this. . . Code: [Select] <?PHP echo "<a href='" + searchengineselection + '"> // or whatever ?> Isn't there some kind of php command to send a link? Also, I need way to pass the form data value from the weblinks.php page to the searchformhandler.php file How do you have a log generate two different logs, and having where it posts the log at, depend on if it's a visitor, or a search engine spider HTTP_USER_AGENT (Like Googlebot, Msnbot, Yahoo! Slurp.) <?php define("DATE_FORMAT","m-d-Y - H:i:s"); define("LOG_FILE","/full_path/visitors.html"); define("LOG_FILE2","/full_path/search_engine_bots.html"); $logfileHeader='DATE - IP - HOSTNAME - BROWSER - URI - REFERRER'."\n"; $userAgent = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] != "")) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] : "Unknown"; $userIp = (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != "")) ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : "Unknown"; $refferer = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] != "")) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : "Unknown"; $uri = (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != "")) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "Unknown"; $hostName = gethostbyaddr($userIp); $actualTime = date(DATE_FORMAT); $logEntry = "$actualTime - $userIp - $hostName - $userAgent - $uri - $refferer<BR>\n"; if (!file_exists(LOG_FILE)) { $logFile = fopen(LOG_FILE,"w"); fwrite($logFile, $logfileHeader); } else { $logFile = fopen(LOG_FILE,"a"); } fwrite($logFile,$logEntry); fclose($logFile); ?> Hello friends, i'm coding simple free script for articles but i need to know which url should be better 1- at this way article_title_words (sperated by _ ) 2- at this way article-title-words (sperated by - ) 3- at this way article+title+words (sperated by + ) which is better for searching engines ? thanks everybody The result pages is supposed to have pagination like google help me please
I require a page to be added to my website. This page will facilitate a refined search via Google, Bing and Yahoo search engine simultaneously , show the top 5 of each engine. Is this possible using php ? Thank's Hello, Does anyone know a tutorial I can follow to create my own search engine over the items I have in my SQL database? I find a lot of tutorials but they are all 'one word searches' which means if you type two words you will get all results that contain either word (too many hits). If the search engine tutorial displays result with AJAX even better. Thanks for help. df I am developing a intranet forum in Php and MySQL and I am using ajax to display searched results on the same page but right now I am using query LIKE text% to search in database which is slower. but I want to make it fast search engin which can parse *,+ and show result. Since I am using ajax i am not able to use free search engin,so if possible pls provide a complete solution Hi all How do I modify the below code to search multiple tables in mySQL database? $query = "select * from store_items where description like \"%$trimmed%\" or title like \"%$trimmed%\" or dimensions like \"%$trimmed%\" order by id ASC"; $numresults=mysql_query($query); $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults); It is for a search function and I need it to search another table called 'about_text' and 'faq_text' Thanks Pete Hello, I'm developing a website that asks the user to submit a keyword for a search. The results should display matches for this keyword, but also show matches for related keywords (in order of relevenace!). I'm planning on building up a library of which search terms users use in the same sessions (e.g. if someone searches for "it jobs" and "php jobs", I'll know the terms are correlated), and I'll also measure the click-through rates of the items on the results list. I've been spending all weekend trying to map out the design for this but it's proving incredibly complicated and I think the solution is likely to be on the internet somewhere already?! Please could someone point me in the right direction if you've come accross this problem before? Thanks a million, Stu I have code to search a database of members, I can search by lastname but having a little problem. I want to be able to search by lastname starting with the first letter. (ie: a or b or c or d and so on). As it is right now I can only search by first letter of last name if I add % to the search (ie: a% b% c%) will give me all members with the last names starting with the approiate letter designation. I'm not sure how to handle this, any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Code: [Select] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> </head> <body> <center><table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" border="0"> <h4>Search</h4> <form name="search" method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF?>"> Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in <Select NAME="field"> <Option VALUE="lname">Last Name</option> <input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" /> <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" /> </form> <?php // check to see if anything is posted if (isset($_POST['find'])) {$find = $_POST['find'];} if (isset($_POST['searching'])) {$searching = $_POST['searching'];} if (isset($_POST['field'])) {$field = $_POST['field'];} //This is only displayed if they have submitted the form if (isset($searching) && $searching=="yes") { echo "<h4>Results</h4><p>"; // If they did not enter a search term we give them an error if (empty($find)) { echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; exit; } // Otherwise we connect to our Database mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "1910") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("cmc_member") or die(mysql_error()); // We preform a bit of filtering $find = strtoupper($find); $find = strip_tags($find); $find = trim ($find); // Now we search for our search term, in the field the user specified $results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE upper($field) LIKE'$find'"); // And we display the results if($results && mysql_num_rows($results) > 0) { $i = 0; $max_columns = 3; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) { // make the variables easy to deal with extract($row); // open row if counter is zero if($i == 0) echo "<tr>"; // make sure we have a valid product ALIGN='CENTER' if($fname != "" && $fname != null) echo "<td ALIGN='CENTER'><FONT COLOR='red'><b>$fname $lname</b></FONT><br> $address <br> $city $state $zip <br>$phone<br><a href=\"mailto: $email\">$email</a><br></td>"; // increment counter - if counter = max columns, reset counter and close row if(++$i == $max_columns) { echo "</tr>"; $i=0; } // end if } // end while } // end if results // clean up table - makes your code valid! if($i < $max_columns) { for($j=$i; $j<$max_columns;$j++) echo "<td> </td>"; } //This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that $anymatches = mysql_num_rows($results); if ($anymatches == 0) { echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>"; } //And we remind them what they searched for echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find; } ?> </tr> </table></center> </body> </html> Hello. I am working on a php script for searching a database table. I am really new to this, so I used the this tutorial http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search I managed to get all the things working the way I wanted, except one important and crucial thing. Let me explain. My table consist of three columns, like this: ID(bigint20) title(text) link (varchar255) ============================= ID1 title1 link-1 ID2 title2 link-2 etc... Like I said, I managed to make the script display results for a search query based on the title. Want I want it to do more, but I can't seem to find the right resource to learn how, is to place a "Download" button under each search result with its corresponding link from the table. Here is the code I used. <?php $dbHost = 'localhost'; // localhost will be used in most cases // set these to your mysql database username and password. $dbUser = 'user'; $dbPass = 'pass'; $dbDatabase = 'db'; // the database you put the table into. $con = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to MySQL Server. Error: " . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db($dbDatabase) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to database {$dbDatabase}. Error: " . mysql_error()); // Set up our error check and result check array $error = array(); $results = array(); // First check if a form was submitted. // Since this is a search we will use $_GET if (isset($_GET['search'])) { $searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']); $searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript. if (strlen($searchTerms) < 3) { $error[] = "Search terms must be longer than 3 characters."; }else { $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection. } // If there are no errors, lets get the search going. if (count($error) < 1) { $searchSQL = "SELECT title, link FROM db WHERE title LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'"; $searchResult = mysql_query($searchSQL) or trigger_error("There was an error.<br/>" . mysql_error() . "<br />SQL Was: {$searchSQL}"); if (mysql_num_rows($searchResult) < 1) { $error[] = "The search term provided {$searchTerms} yielded no results."; }else { $results = array(); // the result array $i = 1; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) { $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> "; $i++; } } } } function removeEmpty($var) { return (!empty($var)); } ?> <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?> <form method="GET" action="search?" name="searchForm"> Search for title: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" /> </form> <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Rezultate lucrari de licenta sau disertatie pentru {$searchTerms} :<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?> $results = array(); // the result array $i = 1; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) { $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> "; $i++; I would like the results to be displayed like this Results for SearchItem: Result 1 Download | Other link Result 2 Download | Other link etc.... or something like this. So, how do I add the data from the link row into a text(Dowload), within an <a href> tag (well, at least I guess it would go this way) ? My first tries (fueled by my lack of knowledge) where things like $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> <a href="{$row['link']}">Download</a> <br /> "; but I keep getting lots of errors, and then I don't know much about arrays and stuff (except basic notions); So there it is. I am really stuck and can't seem to find any workaround for this. Any suggestions? (examples, documentation, anything would do, really) Thanks, Radu Friends, I want to extract the Search Keyword from the URL, a visitor came from. I am using a PHP CMS and want to show the Keyword on my Blog. So if they search "abcd" from google, i want to extract "abcd" and echo on my blog. Here is the coding i could got hold of, but its not working, not echoing anything <?php function pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($ref) { $search_engines = array('google.com' => 'q', 'go.google.com' => 'q', 'images.google.com' => 'q', 'video.google.com' => 'q', 'news.google.com' => 'q', 'blogsearch.google.com' => 'q', 'maps.google.com' => 'q', 'local.google.com' => 'q', 'search.yahoo.com' => 'p', 'search.msn.com' => 'q', 'bing.com' => 'q', 'msxml.excite.com' => 'qkw', 'search.lycos.com' => 'query', 'alltheweb.com' => 'q', 'search.aol.com' => 'query', 'search.iwon.com' => 'searchfor', 'ask.com' => 'q', 'ask.co.uk' => 'ask', 'search.cometsystems.com' => 'qry', 'hotbot.com' => 'query', 'overture.com' => 'Keywords', 'metacrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.netscape.com' => 'query', 'looksmart.com' => 'key', 'dpxml.webcrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.earthlink.net' => 'q', 'search.viewpoint.com' => 'k', 'mamma.com' => 'query'); $delim = false; if (isset($search_engines[$ref])) { $delim = $search_engines[$ref]; } else { if (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'google')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.atomz.')) $delim = "sp-q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.msn.')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.yahoo.')) $delim = "p"; elseif (preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $ref)) $delim = "bellsouth"; } return $delim; } /** * retrieve the search terms from search engine query * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_terms($d) { $terms = null; $query_array = array(); $query_terms = null; $query = explode($d.'=', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $query = explode('&', $query[1]); $query = urldecode($query[0]); $query = str_replace("'", '', $query); $query = str_replace('"', '', $query); $query_array = preg_split('/[\s,\+\.]+/',$query); $query_terms = implode(' ', $query_array); $terms = htmlspecialchars(urldecode(trim($query_terms))); return $terms; } /** * get the referer * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_referer() { if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) || ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == '')) return false; $referer_info = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $referer = $referer_info['host']; if(substr($referer, 0, 4) == 'www.') $referer = substr($referer, 4); return $referer; } $referer = pk_stt2_function_get_referer(); if (!$referer) return false; $delimiter = pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($referer); if( $delimiter ){ $term = pk_stt2_function_get_terms($delimiter); } echo $term; ?> May someone help? Natasha T Hello All, Need some help I have 2 tables in a database and I need to search the first table and use the results from that search, to search another table, can this be done? and if it can how would you recommend that I go about it? Thanks For Your Help Guys! I want to know how to display results from mysql database by filling in a form. but i have found a tutorial which shows typing in a text box which displays results. if i follow this tutorial will it help me to understand and create php coding to display results for my form? On a website I'm building at the moment I want to have a search bar. At the moment when I make the search I am using the MySQL "LIKE" to compare the user's search with records in a database. However this is only a very basic search. For example if the user is looking for articles on javascript but they mis spell it as "jaavscript" then using "LIKE" won't recognises these two as being similar. Could anyone point me in the direction or some articles or tutorials about how to perform better search with PHP and MySQL? Thanks for any help. I'm working on a script that when you submit the form it returns what group you'd be assigned to based on email. the database table groups has a field called "strings" and we have saved for example @gmail.com and any email containing @gmail.com will be assigned to G Mail Users. I'm having a hard time establishing how I want to do this. The one way I know I can do it is by fetching all the fields and then matching it up using stristr. I was thinking there has to be a better way using the mysql functions. |
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