Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo

From	Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo
Date	2013-06-27 17:52 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kqibt9$9d$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<kqiah2$5r6$1@speranza.aioe.org>

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On 6/27/2013 5:23 PM, Twayne wrote:
> I have what's probably a simple and very basic question.
>
> My goal is to see where a visitor sending a form-email with mail() on
> win 7 and XAMPP - PHP 5.3.5, came from. e.g. did he come here from the
> right page or just barge into this page as his landing page?
>    My php.ini seems to be OK and I've not changed any other config
> files. All other "If's" work OK and I'm now baffled.
>
> This works fine:
> -------------------
> $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
> echo "<br /><br /> Visitor came here from : ". substr($referrer, -13,
> 13)."<br />";
> ------------------
>
> But this will not work:
> ------------------------------
> if(substr($referrer, -13, 13))==="formcheck.php") {echo "Something
> showed up";
> }
> -----------------------------
>
> It results in the following error:
> ------------
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IS_IDENTICAL in
> C:\xampp\htdocs\formcheck2.php on line 36
> ------------
> when when run on my local XAMPP Server.
>
> I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work: Interchaning
> the vars on each side of "===", using "==",  moved the closing parens
> around, with and without curly brackets, etc. etc. etc. I've got myself
> so confused now I feel really stuck.
>
> Can anyone straighten me out?
>
> TIA,
>
> Twayne
>

Like anything else sent by the client, you can't trust 
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].  It may or may not exist, and if it does, it 
may or may not contain the actual referrer page.

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$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-27 17:23 -0400
  RESOLVED Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-27 17:34 -0400
  Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-27 23:40 +0200
    Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-28 00:19 +0200
      Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 02:16 +0200
        Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-28 10:56 +0200
          Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 20:03 +0200
            Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-28 21:49 +0200
              Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 22:37 +0200
                Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-28 23:55 +0200
      Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-28 13:49 -0400
        Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 20:13 +0200
    Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-28 13:33 -0400
  Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-06-27 17:52 -0400
    Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-28 14:07 -0400
      Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-06-28 15:26 -0400
        Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-06-28 16:03 -0400
          Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-06-28 16:07 -0400
            Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 22:46 +0200
              Re: $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] echo Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-28 23:58 +0200

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