Dynamic Redirect

[karenn1]

I have a website that caters for people from different areas in the city. Every area has it's own folder and unique pages. I want all of these people to log into one common members area. This prevents having several members area folders as well.

 

My problem is when you log out, I've got it hard coded to go to a specified page. How can I change that so that it redirects to the folder the person logged in from? Is there some sort of ROOT or SERVER ADDRESS code I can use? I've seen it before but I don't know how to use it.

 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Karen

[Psycho]

Yes, absolutely: http://us.php.net/reserved.variables

 

You would want either QUERY_STRING or DOCUMENT_ROOT

 

However, you could also use cookies or session variables as well.

[smc]

Well as I understand you what I would do is keep a running track of what page they are on.

 

Say I'm in my domain and I'm on a page "page.php" in the directory "root/directory/"

 

If I run this variable $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] it will return /directory/page.php.

 

Knowing that you can use a session to keep a running tab of what page they are on. Using something like:

 

session_start();
$_SESSION['referring_page'] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

 

Then on your redirect just use

 

header( 'location: ' . $_SESSION['referring_page'] );

 

Assuming you already declared session_start(); in the login script.

 

I would recommend against using REFERRER to track the page as it is often untrustworthy.

[karenn1]

Hey guys!

 

Thanks for the replies. I will give this a try.

 

 

 

 

Karen