Refresh and return

[itsita001]

is it possible to control the refresh and return button of a browser? If not is it possible to have a command which would say whether a user came from outside the site, or if refreshed, or hit the rerurn button?

 

[jemminger]

itsita001,

unfortunately you don't have a lot of options here with js...
[tt]document.referrer[/tt] will tell you the page they came from...perhaps you can build logic around this.
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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[itsita001]

How could icheckif they came from inside my site?

 

[jemminger]

document.referrer would contain a URL from within your site, like

"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysitename.com/page1.html"[/URL]

you could check that

(document.referrer.indexOf("[URL unfurl="true"]www.mysitename.com")[/URL] > -1)

to see if they came from outside.

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[DaveShaw]

itsita001,
Try using a server side language such as PHP. That will tell you much more about your client than JS will. Thanx Dave Shaw!

 

[itsita001]

"Try using a server side language such as PHP. That will tell you much more about your client than JS will. "

Thanx, but how would i do that exactly??

 

[itsita001]

?

 

[jemminger]

in order to use a server-side language, you need that language installed on your hosting server. see if your web host offers any server-side languages like PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion...

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff