Referer variable?

Is there a varibale in MODx that will tell you what the URL of the referer was?

I want a user to click on a link which will take them to a page that’ll display some code which is based on where the page URL they just came from.

I came across and easy solution while trying to figure soemthing else out.

Just create a snippet as below caled "Referer" and then use as follows:

You were sent here by [!Referer!]

Nice and simple, yet pretty useful !

Thanks for this one

Quote from: davidm at Jan 15, 2006, 10:31 PM

Nice and simple, yet pretty useful !

Thanks for this one

Now to add to it, need to get the page title from the previous page.

Only way I can find to do it is use the previous URL with a ? and add some stuff like www.domain.com?title=homepage

Then use an array to $GET the "title= ". Only thing is I don’t want to alter the URL at all. Not sure if MODx can store a variable from a previous page to be called later elsewhere in the site?

You can use a URL strip function to get everything after the domain name from a referrer so you can have your title.

Quote from: Mark at Jan 16, 2006, 12:40 AM

You can use a URL strip function to get everything after the domain name from a referrer so you can have your title.

The Page title and url may be different though, especially in my case with FURL’s. Its only for use inside the site.

I thought about using a TV or something to set a global variable to the pagetitle then using the snippet to retrieve it on the page I want. Each page would replace the global variable so only the last one would be there.

The page that uses the snippet wouldn’t use the TV so it won’t mess up the snippet.

Problem is I can’t even get the placeholder to work. Just to test it I tried a snippet with.

Then using [+RefererTitle+] to show it on a page, but no such luck.

Quote from: briggsys at Jan 15, 2006, 10:38 PM

Not sure if MODx can store a variable from a previous page to be called later elsewhere in the site?

MODx doesn’t provide persitent values across requests, but PHP does. Set a session variable on a page like this...

and then collect the value from it on any other page...

or something similar.

I’m having some trouble here, which will have a lot to do with the fact I have NO idea what I’m doing and 6 hours of trail an error is getting frustrating


Page 1 has a snippet to called [[GetPageTitle]] which does exactly that, and then stores it in a session variable called GetPageTitle



The when I go to Page 2 I have a snippet called [[referer]] which should tell me the URL from Page 1 and its title.



It grabs the session variable GetPageTitle and gives it to a new variable called RefererPageTitle, otherwise displays "Not Set".

So far it all works.

This new variable should set a placeholder call RefererTitle which I can place on a page with [+RefererTitle+]

The Probelm is the placeholder doesn’t get the new variable or display "Not Set", however if I display it straight to the page I can see the page title which was set from Page 1.



Therefore I must be doing something wrong with setting the place holder?

Try $_SESSION[’GetPageTitle’] instead of $_SESSION[$GetPageTitle]

Put this in your snippets to check what is actually getting passed in that SESSION value:

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_SESSION);
echo "</pre>";

Ok fixed it..... user error



not



EDIT: Sottwell, you posted while I was typing the above; although I had already fixed the issue, I made the change you suggested.