Domain Exclude

Bane posted this at 20:14 — 5th September 2001.

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Hi there..

I'm trying to put together a script that will log referring domains. I want to be able to set a variable to exclude a list of domains.. example:

$nolog = "bob.com,bill.com,spankysue.com";

and have some way of saying to skip the logging process if it contains one of those names.. example skipping if spankysue.com or spankysue.com

The only way I can think of of doing this is if else and that seems pretty messy.. Is there a clean way that someone could show me?

Bane
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tmay posted this at 21:42 — 5th September 2001.

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I'm assuming this is Perl? If you only need to search through it once, I'd stick them into an array and sift through them with a foreach statement:

@skip = qw/bob.com bill.com spankysue.com/;

$is_there = 0;
    foreach $i (@skip) {
	if ($i eq $domain_to_find) {
	    $is_there = 1;
	    last;
	}
    }
    if ($is_there) { ...code not to log... }

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Bane posted this at 21:44 — 5th September 2001.

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I suppose I should have said with PHP Thanks for the assistance however

tmay posted this at 21:49 — 5th September 2001.

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No problem. I don't know PHP though, sorry.

Good Luck!

Mark Hensler posted this at 01:30 — 6th September 2001.

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Welcome to TWF, Bane!

I would use an array...

<?php
$dont_log = array(
    \"bob.com\",with bob.com
    \"bill.com\",
    \"spankysue.com\"
    );

if (!in_array($HTTP_REFERER, $dont_log) && !in_array(\"www.$HTTP_REFERER\",$dont_log)) {
    //domain not found, log it
    
}
?>

You could even get more creative, and use regex..

<?php
$dont_log = array(
    \"/([0-9a-zA-Z]*)bob.com$/i\"
    \"/^([w\\.]*)bill.com$/\",
    \"/spankysue.com/\"
    );

foreach ($dont_log as $tmp) {
    if (!preg_match($tmp,$HTTP_REFERER)) {
        //domain not found, log it
        
    }
}
?>

Docs: preg_match(), in_array()

Mark Hensler
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Bane posted this at 10:27 — 8th September 2001.

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Thank you so much for your help! I am in your debt

Mark was nice enough to assist me and I'm happy to say my problem is not only solved but solved beyond my expectations Thank you both for your assisstance.

Bane
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