Back button wont go back

iBuddy

Alright I use PHP for all my sites and the way I have it set up is I do the following on the index.php file.

   <?php
if (!isset($page))
{
?>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------>
<script language="javascript"> 
<!-- 
window.location="?page=home" 
--> 
</script>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------>
<?php
}
?>
<?php include ("$page.php"); ?>

I have it dynamically pull up the HOME.php file as the first page on the index page. However, google requested when a user presses back, they wont be able to return to google search results and I have to set that. When I press back it keeps reading the javascript to navigate to index.php?page=home
Any ideas on what I can change so the main page pulls up home.php in index.php?

tomwerner

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do but

history.back();

steps one page back in the browser hsitory, if you need several backs you have to repeat the statement.

iBuddy

no........

visit this site real quick
site

seee how it loads : http://movingyouin.com/?page=home when you type in movingyouin.com?

Thats because the index.php is a template I use for all the sections. The $page is the page in the index.php where I want the user to navigate to.....does that make sense?

However when a user clicks back from going from google to movingyouin.com it locks up because of the javascript.....hope that helps!

tomwerner

This might work

$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]

it prints out the previous page so you could put that into a link which would link back to google if they haven't visited anyo ther pages on your site.

iBuddy

thats nto going to work.....

keith73

dont use javascript to do a redirect, that's where your problem lies.

if you want to redirect, use the header function in php.

header("Location: ?page=home");

using the referer is unreliable because referers can be masked by proxies.

with the javascript you are using, the browser is loading index.php first, then going to ?page=home. so the browser's back button considers the last page to be index.php, not the one before that.

when you send a header in php, it is executed before any other output to the browser, no html no nothing, and tells the browser where to go, but the back button will still go back to the correct page before that.

keith

iBuddy

   if (!isset($page))
{
include ("home.php");

}else{

include ("$page.php"); 
}

this worked perfectly!