Help using referrer for multiple popups or redirects

[peterfreeth]

Hi, I want to use the document.referrer property to pop up a selection of pages depending on where the visitor links from. I've found lots of scripts that will pop up on a single referrer URL but nothing that will make a selection from a number of pages based on different referrers. Alternatively, I could use the referrer property to load a different page into an iframe.

I should add that if you give me a code snippet I may not know what to do with it but I will do my best!

I thought JS would be a good place to start with this but am happy to use PHP if you think that's better.

many thanks in advance

Pete

[glenngv]

You mean something like this?

switch (document.referrer) 
{ 
   case "http://www.google.com" : 
      window.open("page1.htm","[i]nameOfTargetIframe[/i]");
      break; 
   case "http://www.yahoo.com" : 
      window.open("page2.htm","[i]nameOfTargetIframe[/i]");
      break; 
   case "http://www.microsoft.com" : 
      window.open("page3.htm","[i]nameOfTargetIframe[/i]");
      break; 
   //and so on

   default : 
      window.open("default.htm","[i]nameOfTargetIframe[/i]");
}

[peterfreeth]

Looks pretty good...now I have to ask some dumb questions:

Where do I put that?

I presume that goes by itself inside the usual script tags?

thanks for your help

[peterfreeth]

oh, another question - can I also do this based on their hostname or IP address i.e. their own domain name as well as document.referrer

If so, can I mix the two in the same script?

[glenngv]

It's better to do it in PHP then.