Remember User Login URL

[southasia]

How to use cookie and session in following manner?

Let say we login to the phpfreaks and left it open about thirty minutes, the next time we click on any menu link if the cookie is expire it will redirect to the login page for authentication again. After login it will redirect back to the page that user left the last time. How can I achieve that?

 

 

[JAY6390]

check the referrer on the login page, using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

[southasia]

It doesnt help.

[pneudralics]

I have an "idea"...what if you record the url of the last page the user was on? Once the cookie dies and the user is required to login just redirect it to the last page from the database..

[southasia]

Yeah thats what I want and working on it. But still can not figure it out how yet.

Let say i have

1. Login/Index Page

2.Main Page

3.Sub Page

 

 

[pneudralics]

Here's what I would do... I'm sure there are way better ways to do it but I think it'll get the job done.

 

1. Create a field in the database and name it something like lastlink

 

2. Include a file on every page. All that file does is update the current url to the user's lastlink field. Everytime a user clicks to go somewhere on the website it'll reactivate that file and therefore it'll update the lastlink field.

 

3. Once cookie dies and user logs in, just make it redirect to the url in lastlink.

 

That's just the gist of it. I'm sure you want to add more things to it.

[southasia]

Thanks, that is one interesting solution i believe. I will still like to work around with cookie and session though.