Re: FN-FORUM: Puzzled

date posted 22nd January 2005 12:04

die() just tells PHP to stop going through the code send the page.
It's often used for fatal errors as you can set text as the attribute.

Regards, Joe.


On 22 Jan 2005 12:46:13 -0000, PAMELA WHITTAKER [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Ah - So $_GET['googs'] could be something that has been added by whatever is
> rewriting the URL's. The site content definitely changes if it thinks it is
> being searched - I managed to work that bit out - phew. It is written in
> such a complicated way that it is going my head in. I am not surprised if it
> is frowned on by Google. I am supposed to be basing another site on it so
> perhaps I should leave out the Google bits. The bit that really confuses me
> in the bit of code is why is there "die()" - I would have expect it to
> carry.
>
> Pam
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Freeman" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Puzzled
>
> >
> > I guess 'googs' is something to do with Google. Basically, it's
> > saying: if 'googs' is in the query string, then set the session
> > variable (presumably for use later on), otherwise, if 'nogoogs' is in
> > the query string, then unset the session and redirect to hide the
> > query string. The $_GET['googs'] and $_GET['nogoogs'] aren't set in
> > the code because they are variables that are taken from the query
> > string of the URL. Have a look around in the code for the session
> > variable for more clues. It may be that the site is changing it's
> > content if it thinks it's being searched by a GoogleBot - I'm not sure
> > what the consequences of this are, but it's frowned upon my Google (I
> > think).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Joe.
> >
> >
> > On 22 Jan 2005 11:09:51 -0000, PAMELA WHITTAKER [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > wrote:
> >> I think that your idea of the URL filter is the most likely as the links
> >> looked like the second lot originally and then they made it Search Engine
> >> friendly before we took it over - thanks.
> >>
> >> I am also puzzled with this bit of code:-
> >>
> >> function main_nav()
> >> {
> >> if (isset($_GET['googs']))
> >> {
> >> $_SESSION['session_bot']=true;
> >> }
> >> elseif ( isset($_GET['nogoogs']))
> >> {
> >> $_SESSION['session_bot']=false;
> >> $location = str_replace( 'nogoogs' , '' ,
> >> $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
> >> header('Location:' . $location );
> >> die();
> >> }
> >>
> >> $_GET['googs'] and $_GET['nogoogs'] aren't set in the code anywhere so it
> >> must be something on the server at a guess but what and what is the
> >> purpose
> >> of it? Any ideas please. I imagine it has something to do with google