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In an effort to integrate our Google site search with Pardot, I’m trying to get our search page to work with query string parameters. Unfortunately, EE seems to be stripping anything in the URL that starts with a question mark. So, for example, the URL

http://www.ourdomain.com/search/results/?q=billing

will return segment_3 as empty. I’ve used the config file editor to allow the question mark in $config[‘permitted_uri_chars’], but that didn’t help. I thought maybe EE automatically parsed those variables for me, but I couldn’t find any way in the documentation to access it.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,
Brian

What version and build of EE are you using? Are you removing index.php from your URLs?

We’re using version 2.1.3 of EE and yes, we are removing index.php from our URLs.

All EE requests are run through index.php (even if you’re hiding it via mod_rewrite):

http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar

On most serves the ? need not be explicit, but “/foo/bar” is already a query string, equivalent to

http://example.com/index.php?/foo/bar

I am afraid you can’t use another question mark in your URLs. You can use this, however:

http://example.com/index.php?/blog/&foo=bar
http://example.com/index.php?/blog/&q=billing

Take a look at this thread which discusses the issue at length.