Tracking Referrer

[marcebra]

Hello,
I am trying to find a way to see where my customers came from to reach my site. I know there is a global variable, $HTTP_REFERER, that shows you where the user came from, but is there a way to transfer this variable between pages until the customer finally submits a form on my page. I could do it if there was only a few links on the page, but there is a plethora of links.
Thanks in advance

[epp_b]

A suggestion would be to track the $HTTP_REFERER the first time, and then set it in a cookie (see setcookie(). After the user has navigated to the area in which you need to grab the referer (the page with the form), grab the data from the cookie, and insert into a hidden form field which will be submitted with the rest of the form.

Of course, if the user has cookies turned off, this will not work. An alternate solution would be to use sessions.

[marcebra]

Thanks for your prompt response,
are you able to please write me a sample script for this? I'm new to php and have never dealt with cookies. From what I understand, it will place a cookie on the user's computer when they come to the page and then erase it... but I have no idea how to code this.

Thanks a lot

[marcebra]

Ok,

I have tried this code:

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] <> "") {
if ($_SESSION['camefrom'] <> "") {
//blablabla
}
else {
$_SESSION['camefrom'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 
echo $_SESSION['camefrom'];
}
}

(i already declared the start session)

But for some reason it does not work. I made a sample page with a link to this php page and it dosn't "grab" the referrer. It only works when I have a link on the php page to itself.
What am I doing wrong?