Redirection and refreshing - related to prev. post

silent

I am using a redirection scheme that works as so : the user (not a member) tries to access a members only page. They instead see the sign up page. The sign up page keeps track of the page they started at, and after they sign up, they are automatically logged in, and presented with a confirmation screen. The confirmation screen does a META redirect after 5 seconds (the redirect address being the page they originally tried to access)
The problem is, after the redirection, they get the sign up page comes back (because the signup page is include()'d to the page they were trying to access). How can I force a refresh??

NOTE: I would just put a random query string after the URL, but most of the members only features make use of query strings...

Any help is appreciated!!!!

sarahk

I think you need to save the new user details (and any logged in user details) in a session. Then the login check page doesn't show if the session holds that information.

silent

Ok, the problem is caused by the fact that the web side does a lot of include() 'ing. I'll give an example to illustrate the problem :

Non-member goes to /chat.php on the site. It's a members only area, so chat.php does "include('not_signed_in.php')"
not_signed_in.php holds knows it was included by /chat.php, so it hangs on to it. The user signs up, and /chat.php is passed to the confirmation page via a hidden form field. The confirmation page uses this to put the redirection in the META tag. When it goes back to chat.php, you still see the sign up page, because to the browser, the URL was chat.php... did I explain this enough?

NOTE: I have got it working pretty well. If there is no QUERY_STRING on the initial page (ie: chat.php), the one is appended "?rand=nbfb3bjsK" (it's actually random). If there is one, it is appended like this ("&rand=mmk3km4K"). When I put this redirection in the meta-tag, it doesn't work right. When I put it in a clickable link, it does.... any ideas?

sarahk

consider this flow

user calls chat.php

chat.php checks isset($_SERVER['rand'])

there's no value so it calls not_signed_in.php

user fills in the page and submits

the content in that page is ok so $_SERVER['rand'] is given a value and page redirects to chat.php

the loop starts over

this time the user will get to the actual content requested. No value is appended to the url.