How to Get The Data of the Website the Person came from?

I would like to know how to get the info of the site the person who filled the form was before...

Don't know if this has been asked, but I searched and didn't find an answer.

What I've tried is this:

On the form code, (Form Html) I added this piece of text:

<input type="hidden" value="" id="referrer" />

And on the head of the site, I added:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function start() {
var ref = document.getElementById('referrer');
ref.value = document.referrer;
}
onload = start; 

</SCRIPT>

Let me know if this can be done and how. Thanks.

Hi WebFocusToday,

The logic of that looks OK. I've not come across document.referrer before but I think it should do exactly what you want?

What happens when you try it?

Bob

I just don't get it in the email I get back when a form is filled.

Hi WebFocusToday,

Ah, make that

<input type="hidden" value="" id="referrer" name="referrer"/>

and maybe add {referrer} to the template?

Bob

It's a done deal, thanks to the CODE correction you just offered...

It's working perfectly. Thanks!

Hi - hoping someone can help me - I'm trying to get the website the person came from before they entered our joomla site - the actual referrer, not the joomla page referrer -
and load it into our form. This above post worked but I'm not looking for the last joomla page seen - I'm looking for the site from which they entered the joomla site.

I'm trying to do this w/setting a session variable in the template that the chronoform would then read and pass to the form -
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$initref=($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
$session->set( 'initialreferrer', $initref );

but am not having luck with this. I'm putting this code into the Chronoform to retrieve the variable set above:
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$theexternalreferrer = $session->get( 'initialreferrer', 'empty' );

But I'm not sure when I use the $session =& JFactory::getSession(); that it's not just setting a whole different session...??
What's the best way to get the external referrer when the user first enters Joomla, store it and then pass it in a hidden form field if the user uses the form?
thank you very much - am in the mud on this one
Jackie

Hi Jackie,

I've finally got the write this up in a How_to document here

This does a bit more than you need: [list]

Grabs and stores the Referer URI

Grabs and stores the User IP address

Tracks the pages the user visits on your site

Extracts the search keywords I the Referer URI was from Google, Bing, MSN, Yahoo or Ask

Adds the results to an admin email if the user submits a Contact Form (or any other form if you choose).

[/list]

Bob

PS I'm charging $10 for this document as it's quite a complex app. I'll send you a PM with a coupon to get a free copy as you asked the question.

Hi

I tried the code posted above and it worked fine, but I wanted some more user information included to the mail. So I purchased the guide, it should be pretty simple to setup, and its probably just me, but I can't make it work😶 . I have chronoform 3.1 RC5.5. I installed the module mentioned in the guide, enabled it, with a link to a php file with the snippet in the root of my joomla installation.
I also inserted a code to the before mail textbox in chronoform. There was an error on line 47, so I fixed that, Im not at php coder so I'm not sure if its correct:

$temp[] = "Keyword $i: "$keyword";

when it should say (?)

$temp[] = "<p>Keyword $i: $keyword</p>";

Nevertheless after submitting the form I get a new error on the last line - the php tag

I also did insert the tracking tag in the email template.

Also I'm not sure if I'm out of line posting here😶

Hi marcielo,

Posting this here is fine. I'll happily fix any bugs. I do have the code working so there shouldn't be anything too serious.

I don't think that the <p> & </p> tags are going to cause or fix this problem. Please can you post the whole block of code here so that I can see exactly what is happening.

Bob

No thats true that aint going to fix it, but I think there was a " missing there

Here is the code

<?php
/**
* @package ChronoForms
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2010 Bob Janes. All rights reserved.
* @license GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
*/
/* ensure that this file is not called directly */
// uncomment the following line if you include this code from a file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
$gh_session =& JFactory::getSession();
$gh_ip =& $gh_session->get('gh_ip', '000.000.000.000', 'gh');
$gh_pages =& $gh_session->get('gh_pages', array(), 'gh');
$gh_referers =& $gh_session->get('gh_referers', array(), 'gh');
// add the user IP address
$message = "";
$message .= "<div >IP: $gh_ip</div>";
// add the referer URL
if ( count($gh_referers) ) {
$i = 1;
$temp = $keywords = array();
foreach ( $gh_referers as $referer ) {
$temp[] = "<p>Referer $i: $referer</p>";
$keywords_used = getKeywords($referer);
if ( $keywords_used ) {
$keywords[] = $keywords_used;
}
$i++;
}
$message .= "<div>".implode('br />', $temp)."</div>";
// add the pages visited
if ( count($gh_pages) ) {
$i = 1;
$temp = array();
foreach ( $gh_pages as $page ) {
if ( $page ) {
$temp[] = "<p>Page visited $i: $page</p>";
$i++;
}
}
$message .= "<div>".implode('br />', $temp)."</div>";
}
// add the search engine keywords
if ( count($keywords) ) {
$i = 1;
$temp = array();
foreach ( $keywords as $keyword ) {
$temp[] = "<p>Keyword $i: $keyword</p>";
$i++;
}
$message .= "<div>".implode('br />', $temp)."</div>";
}
JRequest::setVar('tracker_message', $message, 'post');
// function to extract keyword form a search engine URI
function getKeywords($query)
{
if ( strpos($query, "google.") ) {
$pattern = '%^.*/(?:search|maps).*[?&]q=(.*)%';
} elseif ( strpos($query, "msn.") || strpos($query, "live") ) {
$pattern = '/^.*q=(.*)$/';
} elseif ( strpos($query, "yahoo.") ) {
$pattern = '/^.*[?&]p=(.*)$/';
} elseif ( strpos($query, "ask.") ) {
$pattern = '/^.*[?&]q=(.*)$/';
} elseif ( strpos($query, "bing.") ) {
$pattern = '/^.*[?&]q=(.*)$/';
} else {
return false;
}
preg_match($pattern, $query, $matches);
if ( strpos($matches[1], '&') ) {
$querystr = substr($matches[1], 0, strpos($matches[1], '&'));
} else {
$querystr = $matches[1];
}
return urldecode($querystr);
}
?>

Hi Marcielo,

My apologies, you are exactly right. There is an extra " and a missing } :-(

    $message .= "<div>".implode('br />', $temp)."</div>";
} // <-- add this bracket

// add the pages visited

    foreach ( $keywords as $keyword ) {
        $temp[] = "Keyword $i: $keyword"; // <-- remove extra quote from this line
        $i++;
    }

Bob

PS I've updated the document to fix this errors - please email me if you'd like a copy.

Thank you again that worked nicely