I am a complete PHP newbie, and I'm not even sure if I should be using PHP for what I'm doing, but here goes. Basically all I want to do is based on where a user comes from, change a link on the page to link to another location. I feel like this is very basic, but I'm not sure exactly how to phrase my search to get the best results. How would I do this?
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3 Answers
You probably want something along the lines of
<?php if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] === 'http://www.example.com') { ?>
<a href="http://www.example.com/1">1</a>
<?php } else { ?>
<a href="http://www.example.com/2">2</a>
<?php } ?>
3 Comments
Cthos
Personally, I always like to do strpos on these things since that 'www' is not always guaranteed to be present.
Jumhyn
Will this work for determining the exact page of a website a user came from?
Cthos
@Jumhyn When it is set, HTTP_REFERER does contain the full path to the url that directed the user to the page, yes.
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
This will give you the url of client requesting the page. As said in this post: "Note that it is provided by the client so it may be empty or faked, so don't trust it security-wise."
Comments
Not sure exactly how you would best google that, but hopefully this will get you started:
To figure out where a user came from, you need $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. Here's a tutorial based on doing a header redirect on that: http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/7406-how-redirect-based-_server-http_referer
But you'll want to substitute echoing out a link instead of using header().
So quick snippet it would be something like this:
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'stackoverflow.com')) {
echo "<a href='http://thatplaceiwanttogoto.com'>Here</a>";
} else {
echo "<a href='http://thatotherplace.com'>There</a>";
}
