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[godwheel]

Howdy!

I'm having a bit of problem here.

THE GIST
I'm currenting doing a rating program. Anyone can access the profile of any member, but if you want to rate someone, you must login.

Say you are at the member page, you want to rate the person. You select the rating from a drop down menu and hit submit.

The next page first checks to see if you are a member, if you are not, it forces you to login.

<?php
if (!isset($SESSION['logged_in'])) {
$SESSION["prevpage"] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$loginpage = "http://website.com/login.php";
header("Location: $loginpage");
exit;
?>

Then on the login process page if the person successfully logs in:

<?php
if (isset($SESSION['prevpage'])) {
$prevpage = $SESSION['prevpage'];
header("Location: $prevpage");
exit;
}
?>

This works wonderful, but the rating information which is sent via a $_POST gets lost in the shuffle -- meaning, the rating is lost.

What do you guys suggest I do? I'm a bit confused. Do I need to also add the rating information to the login_check in the form of SESSIONS? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

[bike5]

If you don't care about people seeing stuff in the url you can use the $_get..

header("Location: $prevpage?id=$POST[whatever]&something=$POST[whatever2]");

then you can check the values based on $request instead of $post. request will check post and get.

[godwheel]

Even after a few months of coding I didnt even know a $_REQUEST existed heh.

One more question, some of the members only pages will be different. For example:

1. rate a member
2. send a member a msg

So, you have the posibility of the following:

Rate a Member Variables
$rating - (POST) actual rating
$ratedby - (POST) the member rating another member
$member_rated - (POST) the member being rated

Send a Member A MSG (a completely different page)
$member_to_msg - (GET) (just as a simple example)

Then there is the include in each of the pages to see if the person is logged in. If not, it will refresh to the login page. Once logged in, it will send back to the original page.

So, the page that checks if it is logged in (that also sets the prev page variable). Since it is an include, how should I make it so the variables are passed back when a person logs in? And how would it know which of the variables to pass?

Does any of that make sense? I sometimes confuse myself HEH.

Thanks. 😕

[bike5]

turn $_post in sessions variables and retrieve all the inormation from the session vars

[sysera]

I wrote a little include to do this for me anytime I wanted to return someone somewhere after a function. It's just a little javascript history snippet.

<?php echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=javascript:history.go(-2)>"; ?>