A while back I had installed Search Meter on several of my blogs -- mainly to see what my visitors were looking for. This has come in very handy on my cooking blog -- if I see searches for a dish I don't have, I hit my cookbooks or the net until I find something. :)
I check my Search Meter results just about every day to see what my visitors look for most. On my domain, I see a lot of searches by what are probably spam bots, for porn related crap. However, I also happen to know of several friends who regularly come on and search for certain keywords looking for dirty jokes. (Hey, sometimes I get a wild hair and post something naughty if it's REALLY funny ;))
I decided to customize my search page a bit to show a custom message at the top of the search results or "not found" message for certain topics -- and maybe have a little fun with my visitors. ;)
At the top of my index.php I added the following:
$searchval = \"\";
if(isset($_GET[\"s\"]))
$searchval = $_GET[\"s\"];
elseif(isset($_POST[\"s\"]))
$searchval = $_POST[\"s\"];
// Not necessary I know, but I get both by habit.
$pron = eregi(\"(PATTERN)\",$searchval);
// Above, replace PATTERN with naughty words separated by pipes
$pronmsg = \"<h2>*** Notice ***</h2><p><strong>It appears that you are looking for adult subject matter. \";
$pronmsg .= \"This kind of material is not present on this site. \";
$pronmsg .= \"You are probably a spam bot - your IP and complete header information have been logged.</strong></p>\";
$continuemsg = \"<p> </p><p><em>If you are not, my apologies \";
$continuemsg .= \"... continue on with your search ... </em></p><p> </p><hr /><p> </p>\";
And under the elseif( is_search() bit, I add:
if ($pron) {
echo \"$pronmsg\";
echo \"$continuemsg\";
}
I added the continuemsg ~just in case~ it's a valid search ... I don't want to embarrass them too much. ;)
And on down where the "Not Found" message is, I replaced that couple of lines with:
if ($pron) {
echo \"$pronmsg\";
} else {
echo \"<h2>Not Found</h2><p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>\";
}
This can easily be modified to handle any topic ... I'm in the process now of adding one for swear words with a "Does your Mom know you look this stuff up?" message at the top. *grins*
Just wanted to share in case anyone else had wanted to do this ... or hadn't thought to. *grin*
