post page help

dfownz

I'm looking for a script that will find the URL of the last viewed page and then go to that page showing all new information (refresh). I'm using this script for a post.php page on a forum. Where you would submit a post and then you would be taken to a page that would then take you to the original page, but it would show your post and anything else that changed during that time.

This is what I am using right now, but it doesn't work. When I go to the post page, it simply refreshes the post page after 3 seconds.

<script language="javascript">
	window.setTimeout("location.href='<?php echo($_SERVER["REFERER"]);?>'",3000);
</script>

Thanks,

dfownz

please help me

ZibingsCoder

If you have sessions in use on this site already, great. When you go to each page, create a function (or something) that'll register a value in the session as the "back" page. That way, when you get to a page where you need to use it, you have it access the last value in the session as the "back" page, and redirect to that. Make sense?

dfownz

that sounds like an excellent idea, but i have no clue how to use sessions. could you tell me how, or link me to a really good site that makes sessions easy? I've tried doing them before and i just messed everything up.

Thanks