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cwhazzoo
Inspiring
January 29, 2010
Question

Show referring site using PHP

  • January 29, 2010
  • 2 replies
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Hi

I am obviously using PHP

Is there a way to check the referring site on a page. I know about the getenv("HTTP_REFERER") but that gets the entire URL. I only want the main url.

For example:

when I use getenv("HTTP_REFERER") when someone comes from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=pie&aq=f&aqi=&oq= it displays that whole url.

I only want it to display the http://www.google.com or just google.com.

Any and all help is always appreciated.

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2 replies

David_Powers
David_Powers
Inspiring
January 30, 2010

Use parse_url().

if ($url = getenv('HTTP_REFERER'){
  echo $url['host'];
}


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bregent
Participating Frequently
January 30, 2010

That's cheating


David_Powers wrote:

Use parse_url().

if ($url = getenv('HTTP_REFERER'){
  echo $url['host'];
}


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cwhazzooAuthor
Inspiring
January 30, 2010

Thank you both. I was having a very difficult time researching this. Thank you again.

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bregent
Participating Frequently
January 29, 2010

Get familiar with the string functions of your scripting language. You can easily locate the position of the third forward slash and use a left() function to get the part you need.

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