JavaScript - Referring History Automatically ???

I want to append a string "&sid=xyz" to the current page URL if the referring URL comes from site www.xyz.com.

I have the following code -

var query = location.search.substring(1);
if (document.referrer.indexOf(/xyz/) > 0) {
query = query + "&sid=xyz";
}

However, the string is not being appended.

Can anyone see where the problem lies?

I am using a third party shopping cart service written in php. I don't have access to the php code so I decided to use javascript to write a cookie.

What I'm trying to do is have the cookie capture the referring URL and then keep it for a day and have it follow where ever the visitor goes in the shopping cart. Then when they check out, the referring URL will populate a form field and be returned as part of the form results. This way I can track where my visitors come from. My code is below and I'm adding it to the file designated as the head section. (The files I have access to must use some form of include but I can't use php in them - just html and javascript. I've tried.)

I have an alert in the code that suggests something to do as well as set the cookie. The alert comes up and the cookie is set but when you go to another page, the alert comes up again and another cookie is set. I just need to have it set once so when they fill out the order form, I'll know where they came from.

This is my code and thanks for the help.

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
cookie_name = "dataCookie";
var referred;
function getName() {
if(document.cookie)
{
index = document.cookie.indexOf(cookie_name);
if (index != -1)
{
namestart = (document.cookie.indexOf("=", index) + 1);
nameend = document.cookie.indexOf(";", index);
if (nameend == -1) {nameend = document.cookie.length;}
referred = document.cookie.substring(namestart, nameend);
return referred;
}
}
}
referred=getName();
if (referred == "dataCookie")
{referred = "No-Referral"}
function getCookie(c_name) {
		if (document.cookie.length>0) {
			 c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=")
			 if (c_start!=-1) {
    		c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1 
    		c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start)
    		if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length
    				return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end))
      } 
  		}
		return ""
}	
function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays) {
		var exdate=new Date()
		exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays)
		document.cookie=c_name+ "=" + escape(value) + ((expiredays==null) ? "" : "; expires="+exdate.toGMTString())
}		
function checkCookie() 
{
	{
	var cookieEnabled=(navigator.cookieenabled)? true : false 
	//if not IE4+ nor NS6+ 
	if (typeof navigator.cookieenabled=="undefined" &&!cookieEnabled)
		{ 
		document.cookie="testcookie" 
		cookieEnabled=(document.cookie.indexOf("testcookie")!=-1)? true : false 
		}
	if (cookieEnabled)
		{
			var todaysdate = new Date()
			var day = todaysdate.getDay()
			switch (day) 
			{
			 case 1:
					 day = "Monday"
					 break
			 case 2:
					 day = "Tuesday"
					 break
			 case 3:
					 day = "Wednesday"
					 break
			 case 4:
					 day = "Thursday"
					 break
			 case 5:
					 day = "Friday"
					 break
			 case 6:
					 day = "Saturday"
					 break
			 case 0:
					 day = "Sunday"
					 break
			}
  			var thedate = getCookie('thedate')
			if (thedate != null && thedate != "") 
				{
					if (day == thedate)
					{} 
					else 
					{alert('Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter.')}
				} 
			else 
				{
 					thedate = day
 					if (thedate!=null && thedate!="") 
					{
					{
						cookie_name = "dataCookie";
						var referred;
						if(document.cookie != document.cookie) 
							{index = document.cookie.indexOf(cookie_name);}
						else 
							{ index = -1;}
							if (index == -1)
							{
							referred=document.referrer;
							document.cookie=cookie_name+"="+referred;
							}
							}

						{setCookie('thedate', thedate, 365)}
						alert('Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter.')
    					}
  				}
		}
		else
		{alert('Please Enable Cookies. This site uses Cookies during your visit.')}
	}
}

function addLoadEvent(func) 
	{
  	var oldonload = window.onload;
  	if (typeof window.onload != 'function') 
	{window.onload = func;} 
	else 
	{window.onload = function() 
		{if (oldonload) 
			{oldonload();}
      		func();
		}
	}
	}
addLoadEvent(function() {
  checkCookie();
});
//-->
</script>

In the body I am reading it with a form field of

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
document.write("<FORM>")
document.write("Originally Referred by:") 
document.write("<INPUT id='cookiealert' TYPE=text style='width:300px' VALUE=" +referred+ ">");
document.write("</FORM>")
</SCRIPT>

Hi,

I'm a retired social worker with beginner skills in scripting a web page and need some suggestions.

I create eLearning materials which are given away as a communty service to help people improve their health. A typical eLearning project has a few educational screens (using a Learner Management System-LMS-template) and an interactive exercise (on an external web page-htm or html-usually accessed by button which navigates to the exercise's URL).

The interactive exercise should only be accessed from inside the eLearning lesson using the button, because it requires understanding of the way it works plus important cautions to assure proper use. I need to prevent the use of the URL outside of taking the lesson (for example, someone taking the lesson acquires the exercise's URL from their browser history and then may give this to others who access the exercise directly-without necessary knowledge and cautions).

I tried document.referrer, using JavaScript. Using the referrer URL from inside the lesson and adding the JavaScript to the exercise's htm code worked OK in FF, but not in IE 8. In FF, if the referrer was not the correct single URL from inside the lesson, then it redirected; if the correct URL, the exercise appears.

The JS code follows:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var oksite = "http://www.mysite.com/xyz/courseidxxxxx/yyyy/zzz.html";
var redirect = "http://mysite.com/error.html"; 
if (document.referrer != oksite)
{
location.replace(redirect);
}
//-->
</script>

In IE 8, I was not able to get it to work. Using an alert, I noticed that the referrer in IE 8 was blank.

My web hosting (GoDaddy) is a shared Windows hosting. I would have to upgrade from IIS6 to IIS7 to use PHP. Bigger challenge: I've never used PHP. If possible, I would prefer to use JS. But, I am open to any suggestion that will help.

I am also wondering if part of the IE 8 issue is that I am using IE 8 X 64?

I'm stuck and hope someone can suggest a way to solve this access issue.

Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards,
saratogacoach

I'm using closure to make a function return an object in the form of the literal.
Code:

function myFunction() {
  return {
    a : 'foo',
    b : 'bar',
    c : 'baz',
    d : this.a
  }
}

I'd want the d property to be equal to "foo". However, when I do that, "this" is tied to the global namespace as opposed to the object. Any ideas?

Julian

I am using a web tracking tool called REinvigorate, which is great but doesn't give you the ability to exclude specific referring domains from the stats. However, their support guy told me that I can accomplish this by referencing the referring domain in a small script that only calls the tracking code when the referring site is not "This one we don't want in our stats". I only know C# and SQL, though, so I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Is this right? spreecommerce.com is the domain we want to exclude...


<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.referrer.search("/spreecommerce/") != -1) {
document.getElementById('iFrameId').src = '<trackingcode>';
}
</script>


Thanks!
Austin