Confirm Site Leave

[JesseToxik]

I have been googling for this solution with no luck.

 

I want to create a page on my site that a user goes to when they click a link that will take them off of my site.

The way Facebook does.

 

How can I use PHP to detect if a link is taking someone off of my site, and if so redirect them to a page where they can confirm they wish to leave the site?

I know Facebook uses a URL like so to keep track of the URL.

 

http://site.com/exit.php?url=http://othersite.com

 

[yomanny]

You could send them to a page called exit.php and along with it send a parameter with the new URL, like this: confirm.php?url=http://yahoo.com

 

Then, in exit.php you fetch the url, something like:

$url = $_GET['url'];

echo '<a href="' . $url . '">Click here to leave my website.</a>';

Hope it helps!

 

- W

[ignace]

Something like this in jQuery (assumes all your internal URL's are relative)

 

$('[href^="http"]').click(function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  window.location = 'http://yoururl.com/exit.php?url=' . encodeURIComponent(this.href);
});

Edited April 26, 2013 by ignace

[JesseToxik]

@yomanny thats basically what I am looking for, but how can I add to the script to detect if its a link on my site or an external link?

 

@ignance I like your idea but I am trying to use PHP so if it is on mobile(the mobile portion of my site) or a javascript disabled browser it will still work.

[JesseToxik]

This is what I have setup.
http://vampirenews.byethost12.com/exit.php?url=http://test.com

[Psycho]

@yomanny thats basically what I am looking for, but how can I add to the script to detect if its a link on my site or an external link?

 

You need to be more specific when you say "on my site". If the user is clicking a favorite for example, you have no way to add the function that you are asking. As for links that are displayed within your site that point to URLs outside your site, YOU have control of the content on your site. You will need to change all those external links from

 

<a href="http://www.anothersite.com">http://www.anothersite.com</a>

 

To

 

<a href="exit.php?url=http://www.anothersite.com">http://www.anothersite.com</a>

[JesseToxik]

@Psycho I understand that, but let's say I add a forum to my site.

If a user posts a link to an external site, how can PHP detect the link does not link to my site, and automatically converts it from <a href="http://www.anothersite.com">http://www.anothersite.com</a> to <a href="exit.php?url=http://www.anothersite.com">http://www.anothersite.com</a>

[jcbones]

You might be able to find if your site name exists in the string with strpos.