Question

I have several sites I’m working on that are loading sub-pages via lightbox. The actual content is being found by Google, but the pages are hideous as they aren’t meant to load all the headers and whatnot – this is content intended for lightbox delivery (ajax, fancybox).

In PHP, or javascript if necessary, how might I determine if the content is being viewed in a lightbox or not? Would be nice to throw up a “view the original page” link or something.

Answer 1

lightbox like every other similar lib use AJAX for pulling content … am not sure sure if you can detect if it is a standard jquery or moottools or lightbox because they all you the same technology

What you can do is detect if your page is been called via AJAX

function isAjax() {
    return (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']=="XMLHttpRequest");
}

if(isAjax())
{
    die("Don't Use AJAX");
}
else
{
    echo "WELCOME" ;
}