getting where users come from

[programming.name]

Hi,

is there any script to get where users come from? I mean if an user clicked my website link from, say, phpfreaks.com, and the user is now in the site. All I want is to get the previous site, phpfreaks.com.

 

Thanks

[litebearer]

http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/php_referrer.php

 

[.josh]

$HTTP_REFERER is deprecated. Use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], but note that it is set by the agent making the request (like the browser) and is very easily spoofed, so basically it's not really trustworthy unless your site's average user is not inclined to know such things.

[ignace]

$HTTP_REFERER is deprecated. Use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], but note that it is set by the agent making the request (like the browser) and is very easily spoofed, so basically it's not really trustworthy unless your site's average user is not inclined to know such things.

 

That said, there are a few neat things you can do with it like highlighting keywords if they came from google.

[.josh]

or changing content based on kwds (which btw will hurt your serp ranking if google finds out, unless you can demonstrate you are performing legit a/b or mv tests)