Seen this in wordpress, how to do on other sites?

Hi,

I've seen this done in a plugin for wordpress and would like to accomplish the same with a regular site. What I would like to do is create a PHP script that displays the referring search engine and keyword that was used to find my site.

So say someone found my site using Google and used the keyword "widgets" I could display the words for the referring engine (Google) and the keyword (widgets) on the webpage somewhere.

I'm useless at PHP , but could anyone point out if this is easy to create?

Thanks for any replies.

 

This is a pretty simple version, but it ought to do the trick.

if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], "google.com/search") !== false){
	$keyword = array_pop(explode("&q=", $referer));
	echo(htmlentities(urldecode($keyword)));
}

PHP:

 

just check the wordpress plugin and source code should be there

 

Thanks Fash, this currently doesn't display anything on the page when I test being referred from Google though. I'll try and look a bit further into this and see what the problem might be. This looks exactly what I need (with MSN and Yahoo included) so I'm eager to get this working.

Thanks for the help.

 

$referer is not defined unless you have register_globals on.

if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], "google.com/search") !== false)
{
    $keyword = array_pop(explode("&q=", $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']));
    echo(htmlentities(urldecode($keyword)));
}

PHP:

 

Ah, it's working now, thanks!