Tracking

[NZ_Kiwis]

I'm trying to track where my visiters are coming from so i have this code... which adds it to a sql database..

problem is i get real long url's IE people seaching google ect.
how can i make them shorter??? like www.google.com???

$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 

[bpat1434]

<?php

$pattern = "/http:\/\/([a-z0-9_]*\.[a-z0-9.]*\.[a-z]{2,4})\//i";

preg_match($pattern, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $referer);

print_r($referer[1]);
?>

~Brett

[bpat1434]

<?php

$pattern = "/http:\/\/([a-z0-9_]*\.[a-z0-9.]*\.[a-z]{2,4})\//i";

preg_match($pattern, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $referer);

print_r($referer);
?>

~Brett

[Weedpacket]

Or use [man]parse_url/man to get the host.