I am working with an established .js file whereby I am needing to determine if a user is coming from a particular virtual site as to whether to expose the menu option or not on the web page. The 2 menu items BOLDED below is where I need NOT display these menu options if the user is coming from a particular site. ANY HELP OR DIRECTION IS APPRECIATED. Thank you.

Here is my code:

arMenu3 = new Array(
120, //menu width
320, //left
120, //top
"#000000", //font color
"#000000", //font mouseover color
"#EEEEEE", //background color
"#CCCCCC", //background mouseover color
"#999999", //border color
"#999999", //seperator color
"Lab Test Consent Forms","http://XXXXweb018/Legal/consent.htm#5",0,
"Order Book (LAB 202)","/hmfw7/general/lab202.pdf",0,
"Point of Care Protocols","/hmfw7/poc/index.htm",0,
"Release of Body","http://XXXXXweb01/hmfw8/HPolicy/602revdofbody.doc",0,
"Specimen Collection","/hmfw7/collections/index.asp",0,
"Transfusion Services","/hmfw7/bbprotocols/index.asp",0

I would use a server side language. I don't think this is possible in JS.

HTH,

Snib

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Use the document.referrer property. Referrer is spelled correctly here, though in this usage it is often times mispelled as referer.

if (document.referrer) {
   document.write('Thanks for following the link to our site.');
}

Relying on the referrer is not always a good idea, as this information can be spoofed or omitted by the user, depends on how you're using it.

The referrer is passed from the client's browser to the HTTP server, then to the server-side language, that is how it is possible to view the referrer on the server-side.


Regards,
Rich

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You may be able to use the DOCUMENT.REFERRER to get this value.

I tried checking using the document.referrer command however I am not doing something right. What I did is as follows:

arMenu3 = new Array(
120, //menu width
320, //left
120, //top
"#000000", //font color
"#000000", //font mouseover color
"#EEEEEE", //background color
"#CCCCCC", //background mouseover color
"#999999", //border color
"#999999", //seperator color
if (document.referrer != "http://www.mywebsite.com")
  "Lab Test Consent Forms","http://XXXXweb018/Legal/consent.htm#5",0,
"Order Book (LAB 202)","/hmfw7/general/lab202.pdf",0,
if (document.referrer != "http://www.mywebsite.com")
  "Point of Care Protocols","/hmfw7/poc/index.htm",0,
"Release of Body","http://XXXXXweb01/hmfw8/HPolicy/602revdofbody.doc",0,
"Specimen Collection","/hmfw7/collections/index.asp",0,
"Transfusion Services","/hmfw7/bbprotocols/index.asp",0
)


However, I am getting a js error stating that I am missing a ")".

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Thanks.

You are missing the ')' that closes the new array().

Snib

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Actually it is there, I just forgot to copy that into my page. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for your time in looking at this.

Hi Savoym,

Apologies if I'm way off track...

I think you are trying to conditionally add elements to your array according to whether the referrer matches a given value. AFAIK you can't do this when you first define the array.

I would try something like the following...

 arMenu3 = new Array(
120, //menu width
320, //left
120, //top
"#000000", //font color
"#000000", //font mouseover color
"#EEEEEE", //background color
"#CCCCCC", //background mouseover color
"#999999", //border color
"#999999"); //seperator color

AddMenuOption(arMenu3, "http://www.mywebsite.com", "Lab Test Consent Forms", "http://XXXXweb018/Legal/consent.htm#5", 0);
AddMenuOption(arMenu3, "", "Order Book (LAB 202)", "/hmfw7/general/lab202.pdf", 0);
AddMenuOption(arMenu3, "http://www.mywebsite.com", "Point of Care Protocols", "/hmfw7/poc/index.htm", 0);
// more options here

function AddMenuOption(pMenuArray, pExcludeFromSite, pText, pUrl, pInt){
    if(pExcludeFromSite == "" || document.referrer != pExcludeFromSite){
        pMenuArray[pMenuArray.length] = pText;
        pMenuArray[pMenuArray.length] = pUrl;
        pMenuArray[pMenuArray.length] = pInt;
    }
}

HTH,

Chris

Hi there,

Depending on where you've added the closing ), this is not going to work.
If you need to create a new array on the fly, the items must be separated with a , just as you have with the first few items. Inside the new array declaration, you cannot use programming logic, like if constructs.
If I were you, I would add a placeholder item, like "", at the location in the array where you want it. Then outside the array declaration, use the if logic and overwrite the item in the array with the required value.

HtH,

Imar
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Everyone is unique, except for me.

Besides the other stuff that has already been brought up... Another problem with this approach:

if (document.referrer != "http://www.mywebsite.com")

is how sure are you that is the exact string in the referrer? What if the referrer is http://www.mywebsite.com/some_page.htm ?? Your referrer check isn't going to work if there is more on the referrering URL. I would suggest using a substring check with regular expressions to find that the string "http://www.mywebsite.com" Occurs at the beginning of the document.referrer property value, instead of being the value of the property exactly.



Regards,
Rich

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