RE: [PHP] How to Force user to start with Homepage(PHP3)

> Here's the idea behind it. If someone is coming to your site by > punching in a URL, the $HTTP_REFERER will be blank. If they come to > your site by clicking on a link, the $HTTP_REFERER will be whatever > domain the link was on. If that domain is not yours, then you redirect > them to your home page. Otherwise, the file is parsed normally. There's some major issues with that...first and foremost some browsers (such as Opera) allow users to disable issuing the HTTP_REFERER header to the server. Even worse many browsers (AOL 3, 4 and possibly 5) Do not issue HTTP_REFERER codes when a new window is opened.... Example if I go to a site using AOL, right click on a link and select (OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW)...that new window will NOT contain an HTTP_REFERER code so I'd then be slingshotted back to the beginning of the site...this would also happen if the HREF had a target="_new" command attached to it...I don't know what would happen with a javascript redirect. However I can't really offer a better suggestion :) Perhaps maybe use session tracking to do nothing more than ensure that person started at the main page (to be assigned a session number)...then have that either stored in a cookie or dynamically passed in all HREF links...then if a page hit from a user doesn't have a valid session id...it is redirected to the main page. Sincerely, Craig Vincent ------------------------- Senior Programmer Jazzmonkey Media Inc. http://www.jazzmonkey.com -------------------------