Detect if user is directed from you website

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I want to play an animation when you are not redirected from my page (when you have not clicked a link on My page and got redirected to another page on My page) much like: animade.tv

It there any way to detect that with javascript? If not, can you do it with php?

Pick which one you want and then google it. There are so many examples. [Here is a PHP one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2313834/how-to-detect-the-site-a-user-came-from-before-mine-in-php), and [Here is a JS one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3420031/how-do-i-get-the-referrers-domain-host-name-using-javascript) — musefan, Nov 26 '15 at 16:46

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '15 at 16:43

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You can use both js or php

js: document.referrer

php: $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

sometimes it could be empty, you can just verify that is different from your domain

answered Nov 26 '15 at 16:43

Gumma Mocciaro

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PHP's `$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']` can't be relied on. Here's why http://stackoverflow.com/a/6023980/ – Funk Forty Niner Nov 26 '15 at 16:46
that's why i said that it could be empty, but is it's empty because not provided, you surely know that he's not coming from your website – Gumma Mocciaro Nov 26 '15 at 16:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '15 at 16:41

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use document.referrer to test the url

answered Nov 26 '15 at 16:41

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Detect if user is directed from you website

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