PHP help?
 

I have a list of urls that I only want to be accessible from 1 specific url, is this the correct php-way to do it. I tested it and it seemed to work...

the hahahaha is = and another =

spoofing and such is not a concern, this is a free site and bandwidth usage etc isn't a problem.. I just don't want people to be able to move thru the directories by typing.. as my directory structure is very easily guessable. lol.

would be better to use .htaccess then

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

No.. There's a reason though.
anyhow, is *that* a correct PHP-way to do it?
also, if I send the users thru a hyperlink say;
http://www.URL.com/cgi-bin/script/sc...hecodeisat.php

will the original referer be the script or the .shtml page? It 'seemed' to be the .shtml page in my tests, but as I'm a php-n00bie, I have no idea how it really works.

Depending on how many urls I was going to do, I might do it something like this instead.

<?php
$okrefs=array();
$okrefs['http://www.url1.com/page.shtml']=1;
$okrefs['http://url1.com/page.shtml']=1;
$okrefs['http://www.url2.com/page.shtml']=1;
$okrefs['http://url2.com/page.shtml']=1;
$ref=strtolower($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER']);
if($okrefs[$ref]= =1){
echo("OK");
}else{
echo("Redirect this");
exit();
}
?>

But some browsers/surfers will hide the referer so then you can't really do this at all. Is it for admin type purposes?

No it's not, but it doesn't matter if some browsers hide the referer..then they're just sent away on something else. buahahahaha. :)

The referer is going to be the page you sent them from.. Don't understand your question I guess.

well,
I send them from say
http://ww.url.com/page.shtml
that page as a hyperlink
<a hreF="/cgi-bin/script.cgi?=http://www.urlwiththecode.com>link</A>

So basically I send to the cgi-bin page, which in turn sends them to the 'end page'. So which is the referer? The page where user clicks the link, or the cgi-script that redirects them to the right place?

Ah... Well if I remember correctly (haven't checked that sort of detailed thing in awhile), it's "usually" the page and not the script.. But.. it's not 100% and I'm not sure why that is.. Could be different browser types or could be spiders/crawlers. Perhaps you should run a test script or something.. setup your links to send to a test page and have that test page display the referer.

<?php
echo("'$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER']'");
?>

There IS another server variables for "redirect" referers as well. Can't remember the name of it right now.