tracking refferals as soon as splash.

Regular Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 78 Location: AR

Is there any way to add something to the splash page so that it tracks refferals too? Like my main site is in a sub folder from root, and I have an index.php ( splash page ) in root. wehn someone is refered to my site they hit the splash. Now if they are directly linked to my site it shows in the refferals ( ex core.xiodestudios.com ) but if they link to main url it shows the refferal as www.xiodestudios.com. wondering if there was anything I could add to the splash to catch the actual reffering site.

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no,not to my knowledge cause the splash page is outside nuke and not a part of it..
you can solve it by using an extra script to track visitors,and there a thousands that can do that...
For example http://www.phpee.com/index.php?node=3

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:51 pm

well if I have to use an external program I might as well just use awstats in cpanel. Was just hoping i could get my nuke running more efficient.

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:26 pm

well thats what you get when using a splash intro page.
i use a portal as index and i get same referers so...
dont make a big fuzz out of it...

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:28 pm

what function in nuke tracks the refferals in nuke? Where is it at? Mainfile? header? maybe I can include the function into my splash?

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:31 pm

its not realy a function...
its build in so that would be hard to do..

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:51 pm

I believe this is what you are looking for:

Code:

if ($httpref==1) {


    $referer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];


    $referer = htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($referer));


    if ($referer=="" OR eregi("^unknown", $referer) OR substr("$referer",0,strlen($nukeurl))==$nukeurl OR eregi("^bookmark",$referer)) {


    } else {


   $result = $db->sql_query("INSERT INTO ".$prefix."_referer VALUES (NULL, '$referer')");


    }


    $numrows = $db->sql_numrows($db->sql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$prefix."_referer"));


    if($numrows>=$httprefmax) {


   $result2 = $db->sql_query("DELETE FROM ".$prefix."_referer");


    }


}

Found in index.php

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:55 pm

ok.. but what else would I need to add to this file to secure it? Cause I would have to include my mainfile and/or config file right?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Here is one method. I have set up what I believe are 3 different scripts to test and demonstrate what I think you are after.

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/test_start.php should represent a link to my test Splash page. When it is clicked, you will see some different Server settings that it captures. Now, remember the HTTP_REFERER setting on this second screen as it is the TRUE referer page that I think you want to capture.

Now, click the button to enter my test home page and you will see the HTTP_REFERER is reading the last screen which you don't want. However, I have captured and passed it as the POST variable referer.

There are other methods also but they are basically just variations on the same theme.