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One of my clients is trying to show a different phone number when a visitor hits their EE site inbound from Yelp. 

When someone comes into the site coming from Yelp, they want a different phone number to show at the top of the website.

Is there some way to do this where they can provide a unique url on Yelp for their website (ie http://www.sampledomain.com/yelp), but still showing the full original website just with a different phone number?

I know you can use conditionals to detect the last segment and display different content, but the challenge seems to be links within the site.  Would I have to then add “yelp” to the end of every link for this to work?  I guess this method would also mess up templates that use the last_segment for other purposes.

Any help is much appreciated!

Hi rbboyl,

What need in this case is a way to detect the $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]

I looked on Devot://ee for something that might let us avoid using PHP, and didn’t see anything right away.
In PHP you would use something similar to this:

<?php
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == 'http://www.sampledomain.com/yelp')
{
  {alternate_phone}
} else {
 {standard_phone}
}

You would need to enable PHP in the template and use that inside the channel entries tags that contains your contact info, or you could store those in a Global Variable.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks for your help Dan.  In your sample code, are {alternate_phone} and {standard_phone} variables that are being set?

What if someone clicks off the landing page and Yelp is no longer in the url?  Will {alternate_phone} or {standard_phone} carry to other pages?

rbboyl,

alternate_phone and standard_phone would be variables you set in global variables or you could just hard code them in. You will probably need to add an echo to the code like this:

<?php
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == 'http://www.sampledomain.com/yelp')
{
  echo "{alternate_phone}";
} else {
 echo "{standard_phone}";
}  
?>

That variable would not carry over to a new page unless you assign it to a php variable and then create a session for it.

Sean