druagord — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:09:23 +0000

glad i could help

Greg K — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:01:26 +0000

I think we have a winner!

I never thought of using that method!

Thank you very much!

-Greg

druagord — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:52:00 +0000

Ok my brain seems to be waking up now

do not put a wildcard in the array just put the allowable letters
like

<?php
 $callingMod[] = \"de.\"; 
 $callingMod[] = \"rep.\";

 foreach ($callingMod as $calling)
  if ( substr($thisReferer,0,strlen($calling))==$calling) $refererOK = TRUE;

if (!$refererOK)
{
   // Give message letting them know it was an invalid direct access and exit script
}

// Continue with program... 


if ( )
{
   // Give message letting them know it was an invalid direct access and exit script
} 
?>

Greg K — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:35:31 +0000

That would require me to list out every mod that is valid instead of using wildcards, which is what I currently have going on now and am trying to avoid.

-Greg

druagord — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:25:18 +0000

do you know about the in_array function

<?php
 $callingMod = $refData['mod']; // Sets it to the refering pages MOD setting


if (in_array($thisReferer,$callingMod))
{
   // Give message letting them know it was an invalid direct access and exit script
} 
?>

would that be acceptable sorry i must be tired i don't grasp what you are trying to do exactly

Greg K — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:11:33 +0000

the thing is, each mod has a section that creates an array of acceptable referers, and would like to just be able to do a foreach loop to check them all instead of having to do multiple if statements.

sample of what I'm am looking for is:

<?php
$callingMod = $refData['mod']; // Sets it to the refering pages MOD setting

$refererOK = FALSE;

foreach ($callFrom as $thisReferer)
  if (preg_match($thisReferer,$callingMod)) $refererOK = TRUE;

if (!$refererOK)
{
   // Give message letting them know it was an invalid direct access and exit script
}

// Continue with program...
?>

I am thinking that instead of just doing $callFrom[] = "de.taxes" listing the actual mod info, I can set the arrays to be the actual expression matching strings to make things simpler.

-Greg

druagord — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:45:37 +0000

i'm not sure i follow you but but couldn't you just compare "de." to you the first 3 letter of your variable

Greg K — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:26:14 +0000

PS. The use of de.* is not specific, the * can be replaced with the expresion that does a match to anything. I just used an asterick as that is what i'm used to for wildcards.

-Greg