Hello,
I am currently designing new content and features that let other sites call my content from <iframe src="http://www.myweb.com/somepage.php"></iframe> (for example)
then I found something, how can i check which other sites had use this iframe?
I need to know what site had use my content. how can i do that?
I would appreciate it if someone could help me with this?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

and sorry for my english language

Hi there,

the easist way is to install a stats program, or if you have one with your hosting panel.. review that.. however if you do not have that heres what I suggest (this is a better idea anyways...)

Setup referrers, give each site you allow content on an id, and then append the URL in your iframe with the ID. For example..

<iframe src="http://www.myweb.com/somepage.php?siteFrom=google.com"></iframe>

google.com is the example ofcourse. And then have a PHP script that records everytime google.com loads that link.

You with me?

Sir P

You would need to either:
a) check your server logs... I'm pretty sure it should show up as a referrer site; or
b) build the page you are including to record the referrer site into a database or the like.

Alternatively, you could set the script so that if the referrer is not your site, just fail.

Either way, you can't be sure that this will track everything. At the end of the day, you're hoping for the browser to tell you where it's coming from and this cannot be relied upon..

Technically including your page within iframe and coming to your page through the link from another site do not differ, so from plain php you won't be able to decide either it was a view on iframed page or a normal view in a browser. You will have to implement some javascript on pages which can be iframed to check whether the page was really iframed.

Or just put it in the url along with the id... so no javascript is needed.

For example:

<iframe src="http://www.myweb.com/somepage.php?siteFrom=google.com&type=iframe"></iframe>

cheers
Sir P