Re: defeating a flash intro page

Either build a "Skip Intro" button to the Flash intro or put a link on the bottom of the Flash so that users can jump to another page. Robin Mark Peoples wrote: > > Ok, we're putting up a new site for an existing site, but we've got an intro > page that has a quick flash movie in it. Within the site, on every page, > there is a link to the 'root' page (href="/"), which, in our case is > index.php3 (of course <g>). > > The problem is that we don't want visitors to have to go through the flash > intro every time they come back to / . So, I got to thinking of how to make > this not happen. Well, it'd be easy with cookies, but not all surfers are > like Cookie Monster. =) Then, when looking through the online manual for > something else, I saw a reference to $HTTP_REFERER, and remembered using it > in the past for something else. > > So, my simple solution was: > > --index.php3-- > <?php > if(!(eregi("yourdomain.com", $HTTP_REFERER))) > { > //display what you want on your flash page... virtual() would probably be > even better though > } > else > { > //display what you'd normally get when you click on 'Skip Intro' > on your > flash page > } > ?> > > The reason I do the !(eregi() is to make it easier to add it to pages you've > already got. Like... > > --index.php3-- > <?php > if(!(eregi("yourdomain.com", $HTTP_REFERER))) > { > //display what you want on your flash page... virtual() would probably be > even better though > } > else > { > //display what you'd normally get when you click on 'Skip Intro' > on your > flash page > ?> > <i>here is some more html</i> > <p>You see this after you click on 'Skip Intro' or when you link from > another page somewhere on your site.</p> > <?php > } > ?> > > I'm sure someone else can come up with a better regular expression (eg, like > one to defeat a link from a search from yahoo)...something like (this is > totally wrong...it ain't PHP, it's *pseudocode*, I'm tired, and, it's 1AM > <g>): > > eregi("http://????.yourdomain.com", > $HTTP_REFERER) > > where ???? could be any valid sequence of characters of various lengths in a > URL so you could have links from sub-domain.yourdomain.com and > www.yourdomain.com that would work as intended. > > Have fun with it, but test it before you use it in production. =) > > marco > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net