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1. totoro3
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I am currently learning and hacking away at twenty eleven, I was trying to figure out how to customise the 404 page to take the url data as a search value, so, if the user typed site.com/2011/12/random-blog-posv/ (see the typo at the end)

   The twenty eleven 404 page comes with a search bar, I want to take '2011', '12' and 'random blog posv' as arguments and show the search result
   (by this it would be possible to type a blog post and get it as the first result on the 404 page).

   What I need to know:
   - How to get the url string (I assume I'll have to break it apart myself or is there a function for that..?
   - how to display the results of that search on the 404 page (I assume I'll take most from search.php but replace $s with $url or some other var)

   Thanks in advance for any advice.

   Mark

2. totoro3
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   So far I have this in the head:

   /* PHP code from the web */
   $userSearch = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
   
   /* This line only needed on localhost because mamp adds :8888 */
   $url_base = str_replace ( ':8888' , '' , get_bloginfo('url'));
   
   $replace = ' ';
   $xyz = str_replace ($url_base , $replace , $userSearch , $count );
   $otherStuff = array("/", "-", "=", "?");
   $query = str_replace ($otherStuff , $replace , $xyz , $count );
   
   // The Query
   $the_query = new WP_Query( $query );

   Then I added this to the body:

   <ul>
   <?php
   // The Loop
   while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
   	echo '<li>';
   	echo '<a>'.the_title().'</a>';
   	echo '</li>';
   endwhile;
   // Reset Post Data
   wp_reset_postdata();
   ?>
   
   </ul>

   I know the links dont work. It just returns a list of all posts (not a list of posts with the query text in the title or body for example), I am guessing the way I made the query is wrong (WP_Query( $query ) where $query is "some text" from: mysite.com/some-text/). Any advice would be appreciated.

   Mark

3. totoro3
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Can anyone help me with this? I have the argument (what was typed into the url), I need to know how to display the results of a search for this information in the 404 page.

   eg:

   1. Type site.com/name-of-post into the url
   2. Get "name" "of" and "Post" as arguments in a search
   3. Display a 404 page with the search results displayed

   I am not sure how to get the search to work with the above code. any advice would be appreciated.

   Mark

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