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How to find out what was the referral url?

People come to my website from variety of other websites and I would like to know these referral urls? How can I do it in PHP?

Solution

  • You can get the referrer using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. Note that it's very easy for the client to spoof this, so don't rely on it for anything important.

    You can find out about other $_SERVER variables here.