where from, and ftp_site

JehovahsWord

hi,

Firstly, sorry for the mixed topic. I don't feel like posting two threads and that would just be strange anyway.

First. Is there a way, like from the page headers or something, to see where the user came from? like if the user was on mysite.com/file1.php and clicked a link and now he's on mysite.com/file2.php, is there a way to tell that from php? I was thinking about that and I thought if there were, it was probably through one of the page headers. I'm not familiar with all of those headers.

Second. Totally different topic. when you connect to ftp via php, and say you want to send some raw command like a site command, is there no way to get the output? ftp_site returns as boolean, so does ftp_exec, and th eonly one that returns otherwise is ftp_raw, and my webserver doesn't support that! any workaround? any way to get the silly thing to return the output? some commands are just pointless if you can't see the output...any help is appreciated.

Brandon

non_zero

$HTTP_REFERER should return where the user came from.

Sorry, but I don't have much experience with PHP and FTP.

LordShryku

$SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] if you have register_globals off. And it's not really reliable. ost reliable thing you could do would be in Javascript, since it can access browser history.

As for FTP, I don't know off the top of my head if I could give you the code you want very easily. But...there is a decent FTP client that does this in PHP. You can view the source Here and see if you find what you need.

JehovahsWord

aha, thanks! but that would be $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] if register globals are off. but anyway, thanks. 🙂

Originally posted by non_zero
$HTTP_REFERER should return where the user came from.

Sorry, but I don't have much experience with PHP and FTP.

JehovahsWord

oh thanks. sorry didn't see your post, and repeated the first thing you said. yeah I know there is that function in javascript....

yes thanks I"ll look at that link

edit:

I looked at that link. no, that code doesn't do what I mentioned...unfortunately. had me excited lol. any other ideas? where is it that ftp_raw is possible, anyway? because it is listed as a function...

Originally posted by LordShryku
$SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] if you have register_globals off. And it's not really reliable. ost reliable thing you could do would be in Javascript, since it can access browser history.

As for FTP, I don't know off the top of my head if I could give you the code you want very easily. But...there is a decent FTP client that does this in PHP. You can view the source Here and see if you find what you need.