Question

I’m trying to figure out how to append a random query string to the end of a URL the first time someone visits my page. For example, say someone navigates to my site at, http://www.example.com. If everything goes according to plan, they’ll hit my index.php file, the URL in the address bar will be http://www.example.com, and everything will be hunky dory.

However, what I would like is for when that person types http://www.example.com into their address bar and hits go, they are directed to my index.php file, but the URL is changed to:

http://www.example.com/?fromdatabase=randomthing

I have the database all setup and I can get random values from it no problem, the problem is changing the URL so that the random values are appended before the page loads.

Answer 1

Add this to the beginning of your index.php

<?php 
if(empty($_GET['fromdatabase']))
{ 
die(header('Location: http://www.example.com/?fromdatabase=randomthing'));
} 
?>

Greetings,
Fredyy