Domain Forwarding with PHP

yorktown

I want to forward domains in following order:

1) You type A.com - > This goes to my server
2) A.com will Redirect to Z.com (also on my server)

3) Here's where I need you guys:
Z.com will look where the traffic came from (in this case A.com) and will redirect to another site (not on my server) with the appropriate code (ex: <META HTTP-EQUIV = " Refresh " CONTENT= " 0; URL=http:// www. anotherserver.com/affcode=123 ">

The important thing is that Z.com may also get traffic from B.com or C.com (also on my server) . Z.com will redirect to altogether different sites with different code.

So to recap:

Z.com will evaluate where the traffic came from and redirect based on the domain source.

Appreciate all your help all you guys have give me over the years! I buy you all virtual donuts! :-)

Marc
Webmaster

halojoy

I can only think of checking the
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] value
This is the most simple way. So, it will of course many times not work.
When there is no referer value.

yorktown

So I set a value when it hits A.com? Give it a cookie perhaps?

It has to work 100% of the time. Or at least 99%.

So what can I do? If I create a session in MySQL to be stored that A.com could write to and Z.com could refer to that may work, but it would complicate things more than they need to be.

Any other ideas?

Marc

yorktown

I just want to be clear so we understand what I need done.

You type A.com on your browser.

1) A.com code will read:
<html>
<META HTTP-EQUIV = " Refresh " CONTENT= " 0; URL=http:// www. z.com ">
</meta>
<body>
</body>
</html>

So it will redirect immediately to Z.com

2) Z.com needs to determine where the traffic came from to set a variable,in this case:
$zredirect

if the traffic came from A.com, then
$zredirect="www. anotherserver.com/affcode=123";

if the traffic came from B.com, then
$zredirect="www. adifferentserver.com/affcode=456";

if the traffic came from C.com, then
$zredirect="www. anotherdifferentserver.com/affcode=789";

The Z.com HTML Code will look like:
echo "<HTML>
<META HTTP-EQUIV = \" Refresh \" CONTENT= \" 0; URL=http://$zredirect\">
</meta>
<body>
</body>
</html>";

So how do I do that?

Marc