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I’m trying to show content based on the referring url. I tried some php code in my template that looks like this:

<?php 
if( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "http://www.mysite.com/download" ) {
  ?>
     <h1>You have access.</h1>
  <?
} else {
  ?>
    <h1>Sorry, you don't have access.</h1>
  <?
}
 
?>

I’m wanting people to have access to certain content on a page, but only if they link to that page from the http://www.mysite.com/download page.

This isn’t working. Anyone have some great ideas on how to do this?

in the template preferences, do you have the “allow PHP” and the other setting for input or output set?

if you do… you can do some inspection of the $_SERVER variable:

<?php
print_r($_SERVER);
?>

to see what its returning… and making sure its matching your desired outcome

I do have allow PHP for this template. I’m have PHP Parsing Stage set to input.

I added the code you gave me, and it’s returning the HTTP_REFERER as expected. The problem is, if I link to this page from the http://www.mysite.com/download page, my result is the “Sorry, you don’t have access” line, and not the “You have asscess” that I want.

There doesn’t look to be anything wrong here so are you sure your referrer is exactly the same as http://www.mysite.com/download.

Maybe be a little more flexible using strstr or another string comparison function rather than the direct match?

<?php
if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],"mysite.com/download"))
{
?>
<h1>You have access.</h1>
<?php
{
else
{
?>
<h1>Sorry, you don't have access.</h1>
}
?>

Thanks Gareth, I looked at my referrer and realized I was missing a need forward slash after ‘/download’. Everything thing seems to be working now as it should.