Question

I am working on a new script that basically instead when somebody searches for something on my website how it normally goes to here:

http://domain.com/index.php?q=apples

to

http://apples.domain.com

I have made this work perfectly in PHP as well as htaccess but the problem I am having is using the original keyword afterwards on the new subdomain page.

Right now I can use parse_url to get the keyword out of the url but my script also filters out potential problems like:

public function sanitise($v, $separator = '-')
    {
        return trim(
            preg_replace('#[^\w\-]+#', $separator, $v),
            $separator
        );
    }

So if somebody searches for netbook v1.2

The new subdomain would be:

http://netbook-v1-2.domain.com

Now I can take the keyword out but it’s with the dashes and not original. I am looking for a way to send over the original keyword with the 301 redirect as well.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can either just replace the hyphen with spaces when they visit the new subdomain or, since you’re on the same top-level domain, you can just cookie the keyword when redirecting them:

setcookie('clientkeyword', 'netbook-v1-2.domain.com:netbook v1.2', 0, '/', '.domain.com');