Redirecting after log in

[buyocat]

How is that done exactly, is the page that the person wanted to go to before being redirected stored, perhaps in the URL and then with a HEADER command is redirected after log in or is there another way? Let me know what you think is the best approach please.

[Azala]

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

Use that in your login header script, will send the person back to the last visited page.

[zcketcher]

"Use that in your login header script, will send the person back to the last visited page"

Just to be clear:

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

... is a variable. It does nothing on its own so including anwhere on any page will producing nothing.

However, this variable can be used in conjunction with the function header() to redirect.

Examples:

1. To send to a specific page:

   header('Location: http://path/to/page');
    exit;
   

2. To dynamically send back to the page they came from (using the variable mentioned by Azala)

   header('Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
    exit;
   

   [INDENT]...that variable may not always be set, e.g. user got to the page by typing it in directly, so you may want to check for that as well:[/INDENT]

   header('Location: '.(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : 'http://hard/coded/page'));
    exit;
   

   [/SIZE]

Note: If you're setting session variables on the page which includes the redirect make sure to call session_write_close() before calling the header function. e.g.:

session_write_close();
 header('Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
 exit;

... could help save future headaches/rabbit chassing.

Hope that helps.