HELP PLEASE: Finding Page REFERER

[yaunus]

I have some banner ads up on various sites across the web. These ads all lead to a form which the user then fills out. How can I use PHP to track where they came from? Or maybe there is a way without PHP. Either way, any awsers would be great!

Thanks!
Ian

[scoutt]

<?
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>

that will tell you where they came from in php.

[yaunus]

Hm....

I put that in, and it doesn't display anything. I tried putting quotes around it, but then i got some different error.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[scoutt]

how did you put it in? if has to be in a page where you want to detect the referer, just loading it in a page will do nothing. what is th code you have?

[yaunus]

The link is:

[url]http://www.novembertrials.com/php/php[url]

[yaunus]

http://www.novembertrials.com/php.php <--correct link

[scoutt]

I need the code, with that you can't see the code.

[yaunus]

Oops.

Well, all I did was paste the code you gave me and saved it as a php file. What I'm trying to do is create a hidden field that will have the PAGE REFERER as the data.

THANKS! Ian

[scoutt]

then just place the above code in the form as ahidden variable. but befroe that, what version of php do you have?

[yaunus]

How do I find out what version I have?

By the way, do you happen to have AIM?

[scoutt]

just load this in a page an dupload it to your server and then run it

<?
phpinfo();
?>

that is it.

and now I don't have AIM, MSN, ICQ, or Yahoo

[yaunus]

Version 4.1.2.

When I use the code you gave me, nothing shows up, just blankness.

[scoutt]

you did it just like that? and you left it in caps? it has to be in caps. if that is all you had then it should have worked.

try this way


<?php
echo $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
?>

[yaunus]

Thanks so much!

It's working now.