redirect to previous page

wishwarriorx

ok im running a cms site cpgnuke however im doing quite a bit of my own coding but unable to achieve one thing.

ive set up a cookie to check if a user has visited my website in 24 hours if they have it redirects the user to a advertisment page. the page displays a ad for 10 second and redirects to the index.php file.

this works fine. what i am wanting to try an achieve is. instead of this just redirecting from the ad page to the index.php page have it redirect to the previous page (if they were already on the site if the cookie resets) or have it direct the user to the url they were trying to access. (for example there was a link in google that doesnt direct to my front page, i want it to display the ad if they havent been to the site in the last 24 hours once the ad is done i want it to redirect to the page there were trying to access and not the main index page.)

so far what i have is pretty simple

setcookie("cookiead",1, time()+86400, "/" , ".fightersx.com");

also in the same header file

if(!isset($_COOKIE['cookiead']))
	{
	Header("Location: cookieadd.php");
	}

then on cookieadd.php i have a meta refresh set to index.php.

if seen allot of big sites doing this but dont know how to get it to work as ive only been programing in php for about a year and a half.

so all i need is a redirect from the ad page to the url they were trying to go to.

and second a link on that page that allows then to by pass the 10 sec wait and go back or go to the page they requested.

can anyone help me with this.

dalecosp

Couple of variables that might help, but it's Friday and I'm not thinking clearly enough to guarantee it:

<?php

echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; // the page the browser is loading
// (probably before the redirect)
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; // the page that the
// browser was coming from, if linked...

?>

HTH,

wishwarriorx

ah the uri one might work. ive have to try a couple ideas. any other ideas are welcome.

wishwarriorx

ok almost there only have one small problem left.

so far this is what i did.

my header file now says this

if(!isset($_COOKIE['cookiead']))
	{
	$refer = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
	setcookie("refer",$refer, time()+3600, "/" , ".fightersx.com");
	Header("Location: [url]http://fightersx.com/cookieadd.php[/url]");
	}

in otherward i assigned the url to a varable and then added that varable to a cookie then redirected that to the ad page

then on the add page

if(isset($_COOKIE['refer']))
	{
$redirect = ($_COOKIE['refer']);
}
[/php
if cookie is set made a varable for the redirect

then use that varable for the url to redirect to.

the meta
[code=php]
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"8;url=\"http://fightersx.com".$redirect."\">";

and the regular link

echo "<p align=\"center\" class=\"tiny\"><a href=\"http://fightersx.com".$redirect."\" target=\"_parent\"><u>Click here to continue to The Street Fighter Orginization  / Fighters Online</u></a></p>";
echo "<p align=\"center\" class=\"storycat\">&nbsp;</p>";

now the regular link works fine. it picks up the url the way it should and when you click on the link takes you back to were you were before the ad.

although the meta refresh does not work for some reason it just keeps reloading the ad page instead of redirecting back to the original url. any idea why this is?

wishwarriorx

ok i think i got thanks dalecosp your clue got me going its all working now.

dalecosp

Originally posted by wishwarriorx
ok i think i got thanks dalecosp your clue got me going its all working now.

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