CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpurlhyperlinkweb-crawler
Ronny K
Ronny K

Reputation: 3741

track a link a user followed to reach my website

I would like to track the link that a user followed to reach my website just like google analytic does?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 241

Answers (4)

Madan Sapkota
Madan Sapkota

Reputation: 26081

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
    if (preg_match('/^https?\:\/\/(www\.)?\mywebsite\.(com|org|net)$/im', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
        // from your website //
    } else {
        // from other website //
    }
} else {
    // direct typing in browser //
}

Above regular expression match only

http://website.com
https://website.com
https://www.website.com
http://www.website.com

Write your own Regex. Hope this helps you. Thank you.

Upvotes: 5

Adirael
Adirael

Reputation: 9448

You can check the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] value, it will contain the URL the user clicked in order to reach your page.

Upvotes: 2

Gabriel Baker
Gabriel Baker

Reputation: 1219

You could use the 'HTTP_REFERER' attribute of the $_SERVER array but they're not 100% reliable

as John Conde said

Upvotes: 0

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219814

Unless you have a relationship with the other website and they allow you to add tracking detail to the link, you cannot reliably get this information. You can get referrer information from the HTTP request headers but they are not completely reliable.

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions