How to get the http referer in laravel?
http-referer, laravel, laravel-5, php
Solution
Laravel way of getting referer:
request()->headers->get('referer');
Problem
I'm trying to get the Referer of my users. Like if they come from facebook, youtube, google or anything else. Now I've tried something like that: ``` $referrer = $this->request->headers->get('referer'); $url = $referrer ? $this->to($referrer) : $this->getPreviousUrlFromSession(); return $url ?: $this->to('/'); // returns: Method referer does not exist. ``` This: ``` return $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] // returns Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER ``` that: ``` session_start(); if ( !isset( $_SESSION["origURL"] ) ) { $_SESSION["origURL"] = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; // returns Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER } ``` But nothing worked like expected. Does someone know a solution how I can check the referer? I need that because I want to check if the user comes from some specific URL's and if so, I want to give the user some extra "clicks" to rank up. Something like a small affiliate system.