URL Rewriting for search.

hello there.

I am trying to use rewrite mod for the url (htaccess)
Everything is fine but i do not know what to do on search page. I am just using a form for the search like:

<form name="form" id="form" action="http://www.site/search.php" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data">
												  <table style="height:20px;">
														<tr>
															<td width="218" style="height:20px;"><input class="input_1" type="text" name="q"></td>
															<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" STYLE="width:6em; height:2em"></td>
													</tr>
													</table></form>

PHP:

I managed to get the htaccess for it which is:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule search-q-(.*)-Submit-(.*)\.htm$ search.php?q=$1&Submit=$2	

PHP:

but i do not know how to change the search form according to this htaccess.

Any idea?

Thanks

 

Your htaccess and forms is correct, like if someone goes manually to http://www.site/search-q-test-Submit-Search.htm it will open your search page. but you need to automatically transfer your visitors to this url.

For this, use below .htaccess code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=(.*)&Submit=(.*)
RewriteRule search.php /search-q-%1-Submit-%2.htm? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule search-q-(.*)-Submit-(.*).htm$ search.php?q=$1&Submit=$2 [L]

Code (markup):

It will automatically transfer your visitor from your Form page like http://www.site/search.php?q=test&Submit=Search to http://www.site/search-q-test-Submit-Search.htm

Thanks, hope it helps!

 

what about if i want to do this

http://www.site/search.php?q=test

PHP:

instead of this

http://www.site/search.php?q=test&Submit=Search 

PHP:

and if i change the htaccess code to

RewriteRule search/q/(.*)/ search.php?q=$1
RewriteRule search/q/(.*) search.php?q=$1

PHP:

What kind of htaccess i would need?

Thank you very much.

 

ok..

I managed to get it working.

I used:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=(.*)
RewriteRule search/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1 [L]

PHP:

the output is:

http://www.site.com/search/xxxxx

but i have got a problem. if there is second page for the search i do not know what to do.

this is the php code for second page:

<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\">Next 10 &gt;&gt;</a

PHP:

and this is the one for previous page:

<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\">&lt;&lt; 
  Prev 10</a>

PHP:

Thanks

 

The way I do this is to make an intermediate page called something like searchredirect.php:

$SearchURL = $SiteRoot.'/search/'.$_GET ['q'];
header("Location: $SearchURL");   /* Redirect browser to the new address */

Code (markup):

Then you rewrite '/search/sausages' to '/search.php?q=sausages' in .htaccess. That makes it transparent to the user and creates pretty much the same effect. I just found it simpler. Maybe someone can see a disadvantage to this method..?

 

This might not be good for google.

 

Maybe... what do other people think? I think redirecting pages within my own site for the purposes of rewriting them is my own business, not Google's... It's another matter if I was trying to cloak something.

Anyway, I guess Google DOES index search results pages, and they can be a good source of "dynamic content", but they are not a priority anyway... As long as Google is not complaining about my "main" content pages.

 

For the normal search form i am not bodered about my urls. but i am using this search function as a tag clouds.

My purpose in here is to get a nice url. I am linking certain keywords on the page.