Redirect user if the referrer is not PayPal related

Question

I have created a page:

http://mypage.com/paypal

with a custom template that contains the code to grab the ipn response from paypal etc.

Now, I need to redirect users accidentally or on a purpose access

http://mypage.com/paypal

I want to allow that to only when a user is redirected from paypal url. e.g. if it contains http://paypal.comor https://paypal.com then it's ok, but all other access redirect to WP homepage.

How to do that?

Answer 1

What you do is you pass an argument to the Paypal's return URL. For example:

So your return URL may look like this:

$url = home_url();
$url = add_query_arg( array( 'paypal' => '8832002472223abc' ), $url );

$paypal_ipn = array(
     'return_url' => $url
     // rest of your ipn data
)

In your IPN template, you can have something like this:

if ( ! isset( $_GET['paypal'] ) || $_GET['paypal'] !== '8832002472223abc' ) {
    $url = home_url();
    wp_safe_redirect( $url );
    exit;
}

So with that code, when anyone goes to your IPN template page will be redirected unless they have that key=>value combination.