Redirect my page based on incoming location

[jamesdemarco]

Hi,

I was wondering if somebody know how can I do this:

- If somebody comes from an external page, (an affiliate, referral send me this person), I would like to load PAGE X with Y text.

- If somebody find me by organic search (google, yahoo...)or any other way (google ads...) I would like to load page W with text Z

The idea is that I would like to load different pages based on the incoming link... maybe and IF something is enought...

"If incoming link something like

http://"affiliate code...could be ANY word here".somedomain.com(same domain all the time)/yyy/www so GO TO THE AFFILIATE SALES PAGE

IF NOT LOAD THE REGULAR PAGE..."

So guys can you help me with this one...

Please

Thank you! :)

[edited by: DrDoc at 6:40 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2006]
[edit reason] delinked non-link text [/edit]

[DrDoc]

Sure you can do that, using a combination of

document.referrer

and string matching (using regular expressions). For example:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
if(document.referrer.match(/example\.com/)) { 
  location.href = "./someotherpage.html"; 
} 
</script>

This obviously doesn't work when JavaScript is turned off. It also wastes time by requiring an extra trip to the server. Something like this could be handled much better using a server side solution -- preferrably

[b]mod_rewrite[/b]

Finally, be aware and take into consideration that the referrer is not reliable. Sometimes it is not sent. Other times it is not correct. And, it can easily be spoofed.