Redirect All Links

[ykhamitkar]

Hi there,

I have created a website and now my client wants me to createa a form which should be mandatory and unless the user fills up the form he/she can not go to any of the URL/Link in the web site

1. When the user opens website he/she should get a form to fillup
2. If the user does not fillup the form and clicks on other links on the top (e.g. about us, contact us etc) he should again get the same form
3. If user fills up the form he/she can browse entire website

does anyone know how to do this using php

Thanks
Yogesh Khamitkar

[Dormilich]

probably the easiest way to prevent the user from accessing the site before submitting the form is not giving any links in the page (though users might get annoyed and leave your site forever). once the form was submitted you can start a session which tells PHP to print the links.

[unauthorized]

You can use the header() function to redirect the user who is accessing a resource he shouldn't be.

You need to do something like this:

if($_SESSION['has_entered_form_data'] !== TRUE)
{
     header("location: my_error_page.htm");
     die();
}
 

Note however, that you must not print anything (even a whitespace) for the header function to work.

Dormilich's method is also fine, but note that people would still be able to hotlink resources and your google rating will suffer.

[Markus]

Furthermore, sessions are not permanent. I imagine having to fill out a form to view a website every time I visit it would become pretty annoying. You could counter this with cookies, but they aren't technically permanent either.