Dynamic search form for a WordPress 404 page

Show the user a useful search form when on a 404 page. Turn the query string into a search.

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        <form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>">
  <fieldset>
  <input name="s" type="text" value="<?php
    $query  = urldecode( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] );
    $query  = preg_replace( '/\//', ' ', $query );
    if ( @is_array( $_SERVER['argv'] ) ) {
      foreach( $_SERVER['argv'] as $arg ) {
        $arg  = explode( '=', $arg );
        $query  .= ' ' . urldecode( $arg[1] );
      }
    }
    echo trim( $query );
  ?>" onfocus="this.select();" />
  <input type="submit" value="Find"  />
  </fieldset>
</form>

3 comments

Ekendra wrote this comment on Nov. 14, 2010, 4:05 a.m.

Can you kindly show me a demo for this hack? I wish every hack or plugin get their own demo would be a nice idea, since there are many good pieces of work in your site.
Thank you.
nicolas wrote this comment on Nov. 14, 2010, 9:40 a.m.

Sure, just go to some random page on my site, like nkuttler.de/does-not-exist
Silverdub wrote this comment on May 26, 2011, 8:32 p.m.

AAhh.. awesome code. I even dont't know what this code means. But it's a good navigation on my blog when someone have lost in my blog. Thanks :)

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