Getting Referring Url from PHP with javascript?

Hello,

I was wonder if it's possible to retrieve from the current url the url in which the guest was referred by.

At the moment, whenever I try including my PHP file that checks for the referring url, it keeps checking itself instead of checking the page in which I included it on with php. Here's the code that I'm trying to use:

code.php

<?php echo 'document.write("'.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].'")'; ?>

Code (markup):

referer.html

<script language="javascript" src="code.php"></script>

Code (markup):

When you go to referer.html, it's showing "referer.html" instead of showing the referral url to referer.html.

Thanks for the help in advanced.

 

you want to find the referrer page?

<script>document.write('<img src="hidden.php?ref=' + document.referrer + '" style="display:none;">');

Code (markup):

hidden.php

$ref = $_REQUEST['ref'];
echo $ref;

PHP:

is this what you want?

 

Yeah, that's what I'm looking for, thanks!

 

For some reason, it's still not allowing me to track search engine referrals. All that document.referrer records is up to "&hl=en". For example, if I searched for the word "test" on Google, the script would only pick up "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en". Is there a way to fix this?

 

Try this, not sure if it will work though:

<script>document.write('<img src="hidden.php?ref=' + escape(document.referrer) + '" style="display:none;">');

HTML:

 

Yeah it works now, thanks for the help.