Question
I would like to be able to have a cookie that grabs a source from a URL and places it in a form so I can track where someone is coming from when they register. Is there a better way to do this? Is there a script out there to do this?
I would like to be able to have a cookie that grabs a source from a URL and places it in a form so I can track where someone is coming from when they register. Is there a better way to do this? Is there a script out there to do this?
nitestarz posted this at 16:12 — 30th December 2003.
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I guess a better what to put it is:
When i user comes to my site from a specific URL, say training.html?Source=google and they end up registering I would like to know that they came from source=google
How can I get that information if they directly do not register first?
Busy posted this at 21:47 — 30th December 2003.
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I think it's $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]
m3rajk posted this at 01:37 — 31st December 2003.
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i think busy is right, and want to warn you, some people have firewalls that remove that, and in all cases it's optional for the browser to send it. i belive mozilla firebird you can disable it as well as some others.
POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.
Suzanne posted this at 01:50 — 31st December 2003.
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if it's a query string you can get that information by setting session variables that interpret it.
e.g.
if (isset($source) && $source == ('Google' || 'something in particular')) {
$_SESSION['source'] = $source;
}
You'd not want to be allowing people to set any source from a query string. Hopefully someone else can help with the security of this sort of thing.
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