Question

I’m attempting to get the referrer URI in Kohana 3.2 using the following code:

$referrer = $this->request->referrer();
var_dump($referrer);

However the function returns NULL, I’m expecting it to return the page I left to get to this one.

Is that how it should work… and if so what am I missing or doing wrong?

This is being run in the Controller.

Documentation here: http://kohanaframework.org/3.2/guide/api/Request#referrer

Answer 1

The issue I was having was cause by the way my Kohana system is setup. Basically I have a routeHandler in the middle of my system which controls the routes users take. In that script a new request was generated and then executed.

What was happening was when creating the new request object it wasn’t having the referrer uri added to it. I have added the following code and now I am able to get the referring uri from the controller at the end of the routing process.

$referrer = $this->request->referrer();
$request = new Request($uri);
$request->referrer($referrer);

echo $request->execute()
             ->send_headers()
             ->body();

Alternatively a cleaner more native solution as suggested by atma is the following:

Request::initial()->referrer()