[RESOLVED] load a specific (same page) page...

[magburner]

Hello again! thanks for the help with my previous dilemma. I now have a simple php stylesheet switcher. 🙂 I will expand on it as my 'kung-fu' gets better, (using some of the ideas you guys posted in that thread), but for now, it will do. 🙂

OK then. Onto my next quandary... Is it possible to always load a specific page or the same page into the browser every time a user returns to my site? I know you can use redirects to push them in a certain direction, but they look a little unprofessional. I'm looking to create something a little more seamless, and a hell of a lot more classy!

www.kelkoo.co.uk, has a similiar effect (after you've chosen a product to buy), but thats on the 'way out', I'd like to have a page that is shown first once the user arrives. Is it possible? Any ideas or possible suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

[leatherback]

Hi,

I am absolutely unsure what you are trying to achieve, have no clue what your site setup is. BUt.. That being set...

Do you know of the header(location🙂; command? you can push the person to a certain page using an internal redirect, without showing any content; the user won't know.

In a $_SESSION variable you could store whether a certain page has been visited, by only setting that variable to true on a certain page. Now all you need to do is check for that session variable, and if it is not true, use the header() command to move to that page.

I do not know why you would want to do so though. I would be VERY annoyed if a site -for nor obvious reason- decides I do not need to go to the page I have stored in my references, but to their 'latest news' or something page.

[magburner]

Yeah, thanks for your help leatherback, thats exactly what I wanted! Now I've had a look through the php manual again, it is right there dunno how I missed it in the first place! Thanks again! 🙂

[Houdini]

A good idea is to make a bookmark of the multitude of PHP builtin function and then whe you need a certain behavior then you can go straight to them look in my signature for the link to them and bookmark or make a favorite of one of them.