Re: referrer: how to find out?

Lucas K. Mathis writes: > Is there any way to find out where people came from when they arrived > at my page? Specifically, I'd like to know where they clicked on when > they arrived at a dead page so I can either fix it (if it's on my > site) or tell the webmaster of the site with the dead link to fix it. > I've got an error page that comes up when somebody tries to access a > page that's not there. On this page, I'd like to have a short PHP > script that finds out where the person came from. > > anyway, I haven't found out if/how I can do that. Any help? > > lucas > > -- > Lucas K. Mathis > http://www.lkmc.ch/ > -- > "Well fuck all them people, don't need no excuse for being who I am." > -- (Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage) You need $HTTP_REFERER. But you should be aware that it'll only be set if the client has decided to set it; and even then, you can't necessarily believe it. :) But mostly it works OK. For a list of other variables such as this, check out the list of automatically provided variables: http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.predefined.php Cheers, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+