Almost have it, but might need a hand :
I created a script to redirect AND set a cookie that comes in from ANY page from our site. So even if a user comes in from a direct link to a news article, it will redirect them to our "splash" page and set a "cookie" to avoid further redirects. I have that part working perfect.
$(document).ready(function() {
if (typeof Cookies.get('secondvisit') === 'undefined') {
window.location.href = "/index-donate.php";
}
})
However, we now want to capture the URL that they came to first and create a variable so we can have them be linked back to that page after they read our SPLASH page.
So in the example above:
Come in via direct link: /news/article1.php No cookie is detected, so we first need to "capture" the page they came in on "$page-refer" and then redirect them to our Splash page.
On the splash page, we would then present a LINK to them with "Proceed to webpage" with the "$page-refer" link.
I did try this ( BELOW ), but this is only grabbing the "google" page and not OUR webpage that they hit first.
Thanks!
$(document).ready(function() {
if (typeof Cookies.get('secondvisit') === 'undefined') {
var referringURL = document.referrer;
var local = referringURL.substring(referringURL.indexOf("?"), referringURL.length);
location.href = "/index-donate.php" + local;
}
})
Put together an answer that works great, thanks for the comments and push:
On footer script template:
$(document).ready(function () {
if (typeof Cookies.get('secondvisit') === 'undefined') {
location.href = "/index-donate.php?page-refer=" + encodeURIComponent(location.href);
}
})
Then on my Splash page:
I captured the variable $pageredirect via $_GET['page-refer'] and then presented that as a link further down the page ( if set )!
I think you could add the URL as a cookie when you do the redirect, ex:
$(document).ready(function () {
if (typeof Cookies.get('secondvisit') === 'undefined') {
Cookies.set('initialvisitedpage', window.location.href);
window.location.href = "/index-donate.php";
}
});
then you could redirect them to the cookie value:
$(document).ready(function() {
if (typeof Cookies.get('secondvisit') === 'undefined') {
window.location.href = Cookies.get('initialvisitedpage') || '/'; // or whatever this could default to in case they don't have the cookie
}
})