Readfile, Include and Header(location) problem

jdwmk

Hi, this is my first post although I have been using this site for many months and find many of the articles excellent. Thanks for building a great resource.

My problem:

I am using php 4.3.0 on a Unix machine.

I am attempting to create a script that can be accessed via remote sites.
So say SiteA is my friends domain and SiteB is the script hosting domain.

I am basically using readfile($url) to display the SiteB page on SiteA passing in
some parameters and sending the correct info back to SiteA.

What this does is effectively Include the SiteB page on SiteA. So the url in the address bar is http://www.SiteA.com/index.php?page=home when I have called
http://www.SiteB.com/index.php and got the data for the home page and returned it.

I have some links which are for tracking clickthroughs. So, http://www.SiteA.com/index.php?link=100. This should return data from SiteB and
then open the site with ID of 100 to the window. What is happening is that the
new site is opening still as an include and not as a page in its own right.
What I don't want is to have a direct link of http://www.Site100.com as I cannot track how many times it is clicked.

It appears as http://www.SiteA.com/index.php?link=100 in the address bar
not as http://www.Site100.com.

I am using header(location: $url) to do this. Can anyone help? Should I be using a different execution method? I can use javascript
<script>
location($url)
</script>

but I want to avoid this if possible due to potential client browser mis/non-handling of JS.

So basically how do I breakout of the include when I click on a link which needs to be opened in its own right.

Jeff

jdwmk

Hi,
Nobody got an answer or any pointers to this question?
Do I need to give any more information?

I am really stuck on this one. I have read just about everything I can find and nothing.

Hope someone can help 🙂

Jeff

Weedpacket

Well your description of what you're doing is pretty confusing - especially without any code to show what you really are doing. It's not even clear what you want it to do. Are you using include? Or readfile? Or header("Location:")? Or all three in some way?

jdwmk

Hi,
Thanks for responding.
I have managed to find a way around this. I have added the redirect code to my friends script which first checks the url called. If a condition is met, it redirects otherwise it just continues with the readfile() of my sites script.

But basically, I want everything to be run on my site with a minimum of scripting to be placed on my friends site.
The code was on my friends site :

Loop to retrieve $_Get(params)

$url = "http://www.siteB.com/index.php?$_Get(params)";

readfile($url);

being called from http://www.siteA.com/call.php?info=data1

In http://www.siteB.com/index.php, it GETs the parameters and acts accordingly, giving back info requested.

On the browser, although it has got the data from http://www.siteB.com/index.php it still appears to have been processed on http://www.siteA.com. I have external links on that page, which I want to have tracked.
So I use http://www.siteA.com/call.php?info=data1&go=visit
which tells me a link is clicked.
In my http://www.siteB.com/index.php script, it checks for the go parameter and if present, it should redirect the user to that site.
$url = "url from db based on parameter sent";
Using header("location=$url");
exit;

However, because I am using readfile($url), it still includes the redirect instead of opening the page as http://www.someothersite.com. (it essentially reads the content of someothersite.com and displays it within itself.)
If I use Jscript, as mentioned before, it works, but JScript can be turned off. I wanted to know if I can use php only and basically void the readfile() request and open the page directly instead. If so, how do I do it?

I hope that is clearer, I cannot see any additional code that would help.
I am mentioning include as that is sort of what is happening with the readfile() function.

As usual, any further help would be appreciated.

Jeff