Shaun

Thank Marcus, I was starting to think the same. It's strange how its handled, I managed to find some info about using python instead. Ill leave a link here should anyone need it for reference. http://code.google.com/p/ga-demos/wiki/GaRedirects

Hi folks, im in a spot of bother and I really hope someone can help me out here. So I understand that http_referer is passed by your browser and not the server. I also understand that you can have some trouble with referals on the same domain so I tested this on two different domains. I also tested three browsers, FireFox, Chrome, and IE. But I still cannot view the referal information when my php script uses header("location:.... There is no problem if I use actual html links. I have tried forcing the http status as 200, 301, 303 and still nothing. I have no idea why the browser will not pass this information along. The first page on domain1.com: <?php header( "Location: http://domain2.com" ); ?> The second page on domain2.com: <?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?> thank you all very much for your time, it is most appriciated! - Shaun

ah right ok, thanks

instead of $xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die('Cannot retrieve feed'); could I do $xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or $xml = 0; ?? the reason I ask, is because my server sometimes plays up, and wont resolve names.. and instead of returning the error, or dieing.. I want to just return $xml as another value to check against in another script.

Ive just found these set of functions that work perfectly http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/05/how-to-get-redirect-url-in-php/ <- just incase anyone else is interested.

Hi, im am absolutely lost with this. I am trying to make a php script that will check if a site in my database is actually valid. for example, $domain = "http://somedomain.com/?page=somepage&something=somethingelse"; I want to be able to connect to $domain and make sure that the url does actually point to the exact match that $domain is. The reason is that I have some sites in my database that use a php headers redirect and I cannot actually get the original domain without manually visiting each and every url in my db.. now this wouldnt be a problem with a small bd.. but I have a list of over 200k results.. so it will take me a very long time. I must apologise for not writing any code here, the only reason I havent tried is because i really do not have a clue where to start. I am thinking i will need to use fsocks, and $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and one big loop, (for each etc) if anyone has the time, could you possible help me out with this? thank you so much, Shaun

if your not using any sql, you dont have to worry about injection?

thanks, that has helped a lot

If you dont have a web server to run it from, you can simple use http://www.wampserver.com/ . I use it for all my dev work, it is very simple and easy. No configuration needed

Agreed, use javascript to offset from the servers time

You want an php ajax clock. take a look at this: http://ehsun7b.blogspot.com/2007/10/ajax-clock-show-alive-clock-using.html

Hi, I have been reading the quide at http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/writing-secure-php-scripts-part-1/ and was just wondering if I would be safe to use these functions in my code. For displaying content from db: function fix_for_page($value){ $value = htmlspecialchars(trim($value)); if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) $value = stripslashes($value); return $value; } for posting stuff to db: function fix_for_mysql($value){ if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) $value = stripslashes($value); $value = mysql_real_escape_string($value); return $value; } I guess I would just call the function up on every variable that either gets posted to my db, or viewed from my db? Does anyone have any other recommendations? I am also in the process of recoding a lot of my pages as I was unaware of register globals problems, so if anyone has tips there also? thank you all, Shaun

I have my own server, I havent put this script live on it yet. It is just sitting on my home pc. Ive just googled and I guess im going to have to re code a lot of things..

according to php info register_globals On On ? you have me worried. :S

Ok ive just tried: <? if (!empty($email)) { $result = mysql_query("Select * from users where email='$email'"); $totnum = mysql_num_rows($result); if($totnum>0) { $pw = mysql_result($result,0,"pw") ; include('pwmail.php'); $msg='You password has been sent!'; $state=1; } else $msg="error; $state=0; } ?> <table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><div align="left"> <h3>Forgot your password? </h3> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><?=$msg?><br /> <? if($state==1) {?> <? }else{?> Enter your email address.<br /> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""> <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" /> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Get it" /> </form> <? }?> </td> </tr> </table> But it still shows no matter what...