jimmckerchar

thanks. it seems so obvious looking at it. will try it as soon as i finish this damn design work cheers mate.

Hi all. Just a quick question which i hope someone will be able to answer. A university project involves creatng a basic php/mysql bookstore. There are several situations where, if they are not logged in, they are sent to a login page. Once they have logged in succesfully, i would like them to be re-directed back to the page that they came from. The problem is that the login page submits to itself using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] so the url passed into http_referer is always the login page.... and not the page the user came from before logging in. i have tried to store the http_referer url in a session when the login page is loaded. By echoing it when th page loads i can see it is correct, but when i submit the form it then becomes login.php. This is one of the last things i need to do before handing in so if anyone can help i would REALLY appreciate it. i was up till 3:30am last night trying to figure it out and i've been looking at it so long i just can't see what the problem is. Many thanks in advance. Jim