Tracking referrers BUT NOT from, HOW?

[monkeyface]

I have perfectly working script which stores refferers. the only problem is that it also stores referrers if someone comes from my own domain. i dont want that. i only want to store referrers from outside my domain. how to do this?

thank

[HalfaBee]

Why don't you use preg_match() to dump your own domain entries.

halfaBee

[monkeyface]

Thanks Bee, i will look up the description of the function you gave.

currently i managed to program this:

// get the referer of the user
$ref_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 

// set current date
$current_date = date("Y-m-d");       


// Assign positive value to $own_site if users come from mydomain.net
if ($ref_url) {                 // if there is a referrer
$url = parse_url($ref_url);    

$own_site = $url['host'];        // then get the domain of the referrer string
if ($own_site == 'www.mydomain.net') { $own_site = 'yes'; } 
}

// If no referer, than standard value is no_ref
if (!$ref_url) { $ref_url = "no_ref"; } 


// build a query
$query4 = "UPDATE ref_count SET ref_count = ref_count+1 WHERE referer = '$ref_url' AND date = '$current_date'";

// execute query if user comes not from own site
if ($own_site != 'yes') { mysql_query("$query4") or die(mysql_error()); }