easy if else help...

taylormorgan

i have a page on a website atht i want to restrict access to unless the visitor is coming from a specific URL

right now the page is an html page...but i dont know where to start

I DO know that a simple if...else statement could probably make this work

if (condition) {...}
else {....}

i would want the condition to be if they came from https://referringsite.com then go to http://mysite.com/specialpage.html else go to http://mysite.com/illegalattemptpage.html

get it?

does the page i want to restrict access to need to be converted to a PHP page (i.e. http://mysite.com/specialpage.php) ? How would i write/insert the code for this? anyone know of any code snippets for this functionality? Is this easy or am i delusional? I'd like to learn about it abit...I have a really good book on PHP but it doesnt discuss this particulat app...mostly it discusses using if else statement with regard to form submisson (if var=M do this else do this...)

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated!!!

I am on a UNIX server with apache i do have php installed on server and on my comuter too...

Frederick

Pages must be PHP.

Use sessions for storing the location from where the user came from.

You may want to read up on PHP a bit before making pages that restrict. From the question of needing to have a php page or not tells me you have a lot to learn.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.php

taylormorgan

i never said i didnt have a lot to learn...uh, thats why i am here.

i DID ask if anyone knew of any code snippets that could do this.

i DO need this functionlaity

I also wanted to know if anyone could HELP

so OK i need to use sessions for this...i will do somne research on it. i did look at the link you sent and i will do more research besides...

in the meantime, doesnt anyone else have any helpful suggestions?

taylormorgan

<?
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if($ref == 'https//referringsite.com') {
$reloc = 'http://mysite.com/specialpage.html';
} else {
$reloc = 'http://mysite.com/illegalattemptpage.html';
}
header("location:$reloc");
?

if i place this code in the body section of my webpage (no whitespace before it) and rename my page as a php extension...

I will test this script but wanted to know if it looks sound to php coders...OR if theres anything else i should know about it....

Also, how can i allow access to the page from within my web editor? When i try to open page in my web editors (FP2002) only notepad comes up. which is OK if i want to edit page by editing the code but....it would be easier and better to be able to do it without that....I have PHP installed on my computer (i thought) but maybe this means i dont???

THANKS AGAIN for your help!