Any other way to get address details.

MitchEvans

I need to get just the base part of the address without the .html part. The code below does this, but apparently it's not very reliable and may not work on some machines. Is there any other way i could do this?

$file = basename($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'.html');

The above code will show from this:

http://www.site/folder1/folder2/426028.html

this result: 426028

So $file will equal 426028

NogDog

You can never count on receiving a referrer URI. It is only available if (1) the page was accessed via a link (or other HTTP request) from another page (as opposed to the user entering the address to your page in their browser's address bar or by using a bookmark), and (2) the user's browser sends the referrer URI, which it may not either due to browser security settings, firewall settings, or intentionally hiding the value or even spoofing with a fake value.

MitchEvans

So there's no other way of doing it then? I would like to try some alternative to see if it works!

NogDog

MitchEvans wrote:
So there's no other way of doing it then? I would like to try some alternative to see if it works!

None that I know of...you're entirely at the mercy of the situation and what the user agent is "willing" to tell you.

If you're in control of the referring page, then you can add a query string variable/value to the link URL so that you can grab information from the $_GET array, which you could then use to get whatever information it is you need to know from the referrer.