Based on Dean's original Google Hilite, but refactored a bit to make it easy to add support for more search engines (currently supports some 20-odd major searches).
<?php
function search_highlight($text) {
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
//Did they get here from a search?
if((preg_match('/www\.google.*/i',$referer) && !preg_match('/^http:\/\/www\.google\.com\//i', $referer))
|| preg_match('/search\.atomz.*/i',$referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.msn.*/i',$referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.yahoo.*/i',$referer)
|| preg_match('/msxml\.excite\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.lycos\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.alltheweb\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.aol\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.iwon\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/ask\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.cometsystems\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.hotbot\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.overture\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.metacrawler\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.netscape\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.looksmart\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/go\.google\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/dpxml\.webcrawler\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.earthlink\.net/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/search\.viewpoint\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.mamma\.com/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $referer)
|| preg_match('/www\.ask\.co\.uk/i', $referer)) {
//Figure out which search and get the part of its URL which contains the search terms.
if(preg_match('/(www\.google.*)|(search\.msn.*)|(www\.alltheweb\.com)|(ask\.com)|(go\.google\.com)|(search\.earthlink\.net)/i',$referer))
$delimiter = "q";
elseif(preg_match('/www\.ask\.co\.uk/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "ask";
elseif(preg_match('/search\.atomz.*/i',$referer))
$delimiter = "sp-q";
elseif(preg_match('/search\.yahoo.*/i',$referer))
$delimiter = "p";
elseif(preg_match('/(msxml\.excite\.com)|(www\.metacrawler\.com)|(dpxml\.webcrawler\.com)/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "qkw";
elseif(preg_match('/(search\.lycos\.com)|(search\.aol\.com)|(www\.hotbot\.com)|(search\.netscape\.com)|(search\.mamma\.com)/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "query";
elseif(preg_match('/search\.iwon\.com/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "searchfor";
elseif(preg_match('/search\.cometsystems\.com/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "qry";
elseif(preg_match('/www\.overture\.com/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "Keywords";
elseif(preg_match('/www\.looksmart\.com/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "key";
elseif(preg_match('/search\.viewpoint\.com/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "k";
elseif(preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $referer))
$delimiter = "string";
$pattern = "/^.*" . $delimiter . "=([^&]+)&?.*\$/i";
$query = preg_replace($pattern, '$1', $referer);
//Remove quotation marks.
$query = preg_replace('/\'|"/','',$query);
//List of words to exclude from matching.
$excludes = array('a', 'an', 'the', 'is', 'in', 'are', 'was', 'and', 'by', 'for', 'from', 'of', 'on', 'with', 'this', 'that', 'shtuff', 'or', ' ', '');
$query_array = preg_split ("/[\s,\+\.]+/",$query);
//Iterate over search terms and do the highlighting.
foreach($query_array as $term) {
//Don't match the excluded terms.
$term = strtolower($term);
if(in_array($term, $excludes)) {
continue;
}
if(preg_match('/(?<=>)([^<]+)?(\b'.$term.'\b)/i', $text)) {
$matched = "Spoon!";
} else {
$mismatched = "Whoops";
}
if (!preg_match('/<.+>/',$text)) {
$text = preg_replace('/(\b'.$term.'\b)/i','<span class="searchterm">$1</span>',$text);
} else {
$text = preg_replace('/(?<=>)([^<]+)?(\b'.$term.'\b)/i','$1<span class="searchterm">$2</span>',$text);
}
}
$query_terms = implode(" ", $query_array);
$query_terms = htmlspecialchars(urldecode($query_terms));
//If all terms matched, just tell them you did the highlighting.
if($matched) {
//Change this message if you like.
$message = "<p><strong>It seems you arrived at this page from a search engine. To help you find "
. "what you were looking for, your search terms (\"$query_terms\") should "
. "be highlighted with yellow backgrounds, like <span class=\"searchterm\">this</span>.</strong></p>";
$text = $message . $text;
} elseif($mismatched) {
//If only some or no terms matched, offer to repeat the search locally.
$query = implode("+", $query_array);
//Also change this message if you like.
$message = "<p><strong>It seems you arrived at this page from a search engine, but that some "
. "or all of the terms you searched for (\"$query_terms\") aren’t in this page. Would you like to "
. "<a href=\"http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=" //Insert a proper URL for your site's search function here, up to BUT NOT INCLUDING the part where the search terms go.
. $query //Begin the next line with any parts of the search URL which have to go AFTER the search terms.
. "&sp-a=sp10028bf7&sp-p=all&sp-f=iso-8859-1"
. "\">try your search again</a> using this site’s built-in search? It might be more accurate.</strong></p>";
if($matched) {
$message .= "<p><strong>Any of your search terms which <em>do</em> appear in this page "
. "should be highlighted with yellow backgrounds, like <span class=\"searchterm\">this</span>.</strong></p>";
}
$text = $message . $text;
}
}
return $text;
}
?>
