Referrers

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:08 pm

I am curious as to whether the stock HTTP Referrers (In nuke acp) detects referrers to other pages beyond index. It seems to only count referrals to my index page.

I found this in index.php and believe it to be what adds the referrers to the database. Would it work if it was removed (or commented out) from index.php and placed within one of the blocks on the left hand side or even better the header.php (or includes/my_header.php)? If so, what would be the drawbacks of doing so?

code from index.php

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");


    }


}

My goal is to better track who is linking my site. I am getting a lot of traffic to my site but the HTTP Referrers in the ACP is not displaying many. I have visited sites that have links to certain areas of my site and the referral is not added when people view my site via that link. I hope I am making sense. *LOL*

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:38 pm

Code:

I am getting a lot of traffic to my site but the HTTP Referrers in the ACP is not displaying many

Indeed its a litte bit strange with the HTTP Referrers in the ACP.
But there are so many other and better tools to find out who is linking to your site.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:10 pm

Could you offer a few suggestions? I would prefer something that works within nuke acp if you know of any. I tried referrers manager but found it to be lacking.

Regular Joined: Mar 14, 2005 Posts: 91

If you move that piece of code you posted above, to the header.php or mainfile.php, it will catch referrers to all your pages.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:05 am

Sorry, I don´t know about any other who works with acp.The awstats modules is bad has backdoors.
I´m using some of this tools and and some other seo tools too.
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:19 am

gotcha wrote:

If you move that piece of code you posted above, to the header.php or mainfile.php, it will catch referrers to all your pages.

Are you positive? And Raven, can you confirm this as well as inform me of any drawbacks to doing this?

And thank you all for replying. Smile

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:51 pm

CurtisH wrote:

gotcha wrote:

If you move that piece of code you posted above, to the header.php or mainfile.php, it will catch referrers to all your pages.

Are you positive? And Raven, can you confirm this as well as inform me of any drawbacks to doing this?

And thank you all for replying. Smile

I have done this and it does not record all refers for some reason. Certain modules refuse to record. I passed $module_name to be recorded also so I could split up the results and view them in order.

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:17 am

Ok coming back to this to share some info. I totally customized the referrers and its really nice. However its not a point of interest for some, but I will release a tutorial or something later.

The reason not all refers record is because of this following snipplet in the code.

Code:

!stripos_clone($referer, 'unknown')

I couldn't really figure out where unkown comes into play. Seems self explanatory, but I would like to do some research on its actual purpose. If anyone can shed some light on that, please do.