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Ok thank you! I will have to re-read that then. All the best,

Here's the goal. After the user logs in on my login.php page I either redirect them by default to the "account.php" page OR redirect them to the last protected page they were trying to access. Here's what I'm doing. Using $_SESSION["username"] I'm verifying whether or not the user is logged in with my confirm_user_logged_in function below. If they are logged in, they go to the requested page. If not, I'm setting the page they came from as the $_GET variable 'last_page'. function confirm_user_logged_in() { if(!logged_in ()) { $last_page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; $last_page_trim = ltrim ($last_page, '/'); $redirect_url = "login.php?last_page=" . $last_page_trim; redirect_to($redirect_url); } } function logged_in () { return isset($_SESSION["username"]); } function redirect_to($new_location) { header("Location: " . $new_location); exit; } This part works. If I go to my login.php page from "example.php" the $_GET['last_page'] value is set and I get the following in the url string. http://example.com/login.php?last_page=example.php Next... On the login.php page I'm testing to see whether or not $_GET['last_page'] isset. if (isset($_GET['last_page'])) { $last_page = $_GET['last_page']; } else { $last_page = "account.php"; } At this point if I echo $last_page I get the following result. example.php Here's the problem. If I call my "redirect_to" function it's always sending the user to account.php. Even though $_GET['last_page'] isset AND even though $last_page is set to "example.php", I'm still being sent to account.php. Here's the redirect_to function as called. redirect_to($last_page); Why is $last_page dropping the $_GET['last_page'] value as soon as I put it into the "redirect_to" function? Thanks!