Can i redirect to a page and tell the page which page I have come from?

[poleposters]

Hi all,

 

After a user on my website successfully completes a form  or performs some other action like uploads a photo, I'd like to redirect them to the main user panel. I can do this with Header:Location but I also want to tell the page I am redirecting to which page I have redirected from.

 

I'd liek to do this so I can display a message on the main console like form successfully submitted or profile phot added.

 

Is this possible?

[JSHINER]

You could have the header location handle it.

 

Let's say for example on the photo upload, upon successful upload do:

 

header('Location: mainpanel.php?photo');

 

Then on the mainpanel.php do:

 

if(isset($_GET['photo'])) { echo 'You just uploaded a photo!'; }

[mofm]

yes ofcourse this is posible but you want how right well you could do it using PHP SESSIONS and little toturial i made is loacted

here

http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/index.php?showtopic=19510&st=0&p=165699&#entry165699

 

its small and bearly a tut but its a start for you thers are other ways to do this but im guessing this qwill be the easyist for you

 

i havnt seen ur code so i dunno how its set up but somthing like this may work

 

 

$_SESSION['keptdir']="/upload.php?file=4";

and you can call this to ur redirection script.

 

hope this helps

MofM

[poleposters]

Thank you both.

 

Great tutorial mofm. I've been using basic sessions but didn't realise I could use them in different ways.

 

Jshiner. Your method is so simple and ingenious.Thank you. You've saved me a ton of time.

 

Cheers