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microbe

Apr 12th 2007 edited

Hi Eric,

I received your email and a) withdraw my request for a DVD b) have a suggestion on how to stop the freebie sites dropping people directly on the form page.

A simple bit of PHP code on the form page will do it.
At the very top, making sure it is inside a set of delimiters, place the following

if($_HTTP_REFERER != "https://sharethetruth.us/index.php"){
header("Location:index.php");
}

It simply says "if the person hasn't come from the index page, send them there".

Just an idea...

eric

Apr 12th 2007

Hey microbe,

Thanks for the tip! I will do this.*

* (tech note) Except, rather with Perl's redirect function and also with a cookie, because I don't want to handicap all inbound links in the event of repeat visitors. I'd also like to run a few tests to ensure that the original referrer is preserved, which is definitely useful information.

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