Redirect if url missing Google Analytics parameters

Question

For a landing page campaign we're pulling in some variables from the url. I need a way to check and see if the 'utm_source=' is present in the url and if it is not redirect the user. We only want traffic from our banner ads, which all have Google Analtyics Links (incl. utm_source).

For example the url "http://www.example.com?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_term=Foo&utm_campaign=MyCampaign should work but the url "http://www.example.com" should get redirected to another page

<?php
     if (isset($_REQUEST['utm_source'])) {
    // param was set in the query string
    echo('present');
        if(empty($_REQUEST['utm_source'])) {
        // query string had param set to nothing ie ?param=&param2=something
        echo('missing');
        }
    }
 ?>

seems right but isn't working correctly. Is there a better way? thank you.

You should have created unique urls just to use for these campaigns, so you wouldn't need redirects based in GA parameters. — Eduardo
I have unique url's. if someone strips off the parameters, I don't want that traffic. — Dirty Bird Design
Why would someone get the url from you banner and strip the parameters? — Eduardo

Rayhan Muktader Rayhan Muktader · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-25T16:49:42

You seem to be missing the closing brace from the first if statement. That's the culprit.

You want:

if (isset($_REQUEST['utm_source']) && (!empty($_REQUEST['utm_source']))) {
    // param was set in the query string
    echo('present');
} else {
    // query string had param set to nothing ie ?param=&param2=something
    echo('missing');
}

Redirect if url missing Google Analytics parameters

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