Redirection and URL Getting

rlafountain

What I would like to do, and what I have seen done is this:

A user tries to access a page that they must be logged in to view (ie a shopping cart) so they type in what they think is the URL for the page. The script stops them and redirects to the login page. That is fine, everything works there. Now after the login page and the login is successful, how do I have it redirect back to that shopping cart? Not just the same, say index, page every time.

Basically I want to dynamically change the redirection after login depending on what page the user was trying to access when they were prompted for login.

More clarity if needed.

Thank you.

vaaaska

Cookies or sessions...

if($loggedin) {

   // show them the cart

} else {

   // show them the login script

}

rlafountain

This is how I did it after thinking a little. The problem was I wanted to just use the same login page, only write it once, so if the user is not logged in, it sets a session variable $SESSION['redirect'] to the $PHP_SELF value of the page. Then it redirects to the login page. After the login is processed, if it is successful, it redirects to the value in the $SESSION['redirect'] variable. Therefore only on login page is written and it is done with variables instead of an if statement.

Thanks for the idea.

PHPmill

that works or you could do a 302 redirect using header("location:login.php?redirect=original_page"). At login.php dump this variable into a hidden post form variable and when the form is submitted have it redirect if the post redirect variable is set.