Sending people to specific pages that are coming from specific pages...

[cemlouis]

Hi,

I want to show some specific pages to people that comes to my site from
specific urls, I know the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] will be
used but how?

For ex if the visitor comes from a site that is like:

www.cominghost.com
cominghost.com
www2.cominghost.com

I want to send this person a specific.php . I used below code but not
worked:

<?php

if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "www.cominghost.com" ||
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "cominghost.com" ||
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "www2.cominghost.com"){

// Specific page html goes here

}
else
{
header("Location: index.php");
}
?>

This code not worked for some cases like if the visitor comes from
http://www.cominghost.com/account/targeturl.php or
http://cominghost.com/account/targeturl.php Ok I know the if statement
not working but How???

Regards,
Cem

[ZeldorBlat]

First of all, don't count on the HTTP_REFERER (sic) variable to be
accurate. It's up to the browser to set it, so it can always be
incorrect or not there.

Having said that, what you want is strpos():

<http://www.php.net/strpos>

Better yet, try his cousing stripos() for a case insensitive match. So
something like this:

if(stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'cominghost.com') !== false) {
//Special code goes here
}
else {
//Normal code goes here
}

Of course this isn't totally correct because
http://www.foo.com/bar/cominghost.html would be accepted. If it's
really that important, you can use a regular expression instead.

[Chung Leong]

See http://fi.php.net/parse-url/