Redirect by HTTP_REFERER

[Alexhoward]

Hi Guys,

 

wondering if anyone could help me out with this...?

 

I have a member area (amongst others) that require login to access.

 

thing is if you are not logged in it bounces you back to the login page

 

when the user logs in i would then like to take them back to where they were trying to get to

 

i'm using the header function but can't seem to get it to work with $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

 

could anyone tell me if this is possible and if so how?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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[ram4nd]

use

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

[Alexhoward]

hi,

 

yes i know how to do it manually,

 

however, i'd like to do it with $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],

 

so they are directed back to where they cam from

[Alexhoward]

can anyone help me out with this..?

[rhodesa]

store the value into session first:

<?php
  session_start();
  if(!$_SESSION['username']){ //Not logged in
    $_SESSION['last_page'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    header('Location: login.php');
    exit;
  }
?>

 

<?php
  session_start();
  if($_POST['user']){
    //Validate user here

    $page = $_SESSION['last_page'] ? $_SESSION['last_page'] : 'home.php';
    unset($_SESSION['last_page']);
    header('Location: '.$page);
    exit;
  }
?>

[Alexhoward]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the reply,

 

It looks like i have to do a if they came from here go here kind of thing,

 

isn't there just a

header('Location: '.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

 

sort of thing i can do...?

 

 

[rhodesa]

It looks like i have to do a if they came from here go here kind of thing,

 

huh?