Admin Redirect to link clicked

unitedintruth

I must begin by saying you guys are the greatest and most patient helper of newbies on the net and I am sure I speak for all of us when I say thank you.

I have a member login script that is my first script, and was written following an article extremely closely. All is working well and with no error but there is one minor issue.

When someone clicks a link that aims at a page that is for members only, it directs them to the login page. Once logged correctly they currently redirect to the index page, I can change that to any page I choose, however, how would I make it so once logged in they would be redirected to the page they clicked on.

In other words, if they are on the index.php page, and they click a button that says section B, once logged in, I need it to take them to section B automatically rather than redirect them to index.php so they then have to click the section B button again.

I have scanned this forum and google as well and have found lots close, but only one I thought would do it and it didn't, I will paste that code I tried so it can be eliminated as an option.

already tried code:

<input type="hidden" name="url" value="$_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]">

Thanks in advance.😕

leatherback

It depends a little on how the login is done. I have a little snippet which I include on top of each page, taht loads the loging through an include() statement when not logged in. That automatically solves the issue of storing the location: THey never leave.

In your case: I presume you have some check
if(! isset($_SESSION['LOGGED_IN']))
{
=> go to login
}
to redirect people to the login.

If just before the redirect (But within the if(){ }) statement you place:
$SEVER['redirectto'] = $SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ;

You should be able to use $SERVER['redirectto'] as a location for your header('location:$SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ') statement.
As I said: I do not walk that path myself, so this is just an idea on top of my head..

unitedintruth

My auth.php is simply connecting to the database like this:

class auth{
	// CHANGE THESE VALUES TO REFLECT YOUR SERVER'S SETTINGS
	var $HOST = "localhost";	// Change this to the proper DB HOST
	var $USERNAME = "db_username";	// Change this to the proper DB USERNAME
	var $PASSWORD = "db password";	// Change this to the proper DB USER PASSWORD
	var $DBNAME = "db_name";	// Change this to the proper DB NAME

And the code I am using at the top of the pages I want to be accessed by members only is:

<?php
include_once ("members/auth.php");
include_once ("members/authconfig.php");
include_once ("members/check.php");
?>

My login.php is posting to:

action="<? print &resultpage ?>">

and the check.php page is pasted below:

if (isset($_COOKIE['USERNAME']) && isset($_COOKIE['PASSWORD']))
    {
        // Get values from superglobal variables
        $USERNAME = $_COOKIE['USERNAME'];
        $PASSWORD = $_COOKIE['PASSWORD'];

    $CheckSecurity = new auth();
    $check = $CheckSecurity->page_check($USERNAME, $PASSWORD);
}
else
{
    $check = false;
}

if ($check == false)
{
	// Feel free to change the error message below. Just make sure you put a "\" before
	// any double quote.
	print "<font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#FF0000\">";
	print "<b>Illegal Access</b>";
	print "</font><br>";
	print "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\">";
	print "<b>You do not have permission to view this page.</b></font>";

	// REDIRECT BACK TO LOGIN PAGE
    // REMOVE BLOCK IF NOT BEING USED
	   print "<br>";
       print "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\" color=\"#000000\">";
	   print "You will be redirected back to the login page in a short while.</font>";

	   ?>
          <HEAD>
		           <SCRIPT language="JavaScript1.1">
		           <!--
			           location.replace("<? echo $login; ?>");
                   //-->
                   </SCRIPT>
          </HEAD>
        <?
	// END OF REDIRECTION BLOCK
	exit; // End program execution. This will disable continuation of processing the rest of the page.
}	

?>

aspekt9

The way I do it in my code is like this:

I define the variable $back to retrieve the page the user came from:

$back = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
(Note the ' ' inside the brackets)

Then if they login successfully I have it reroute them to the previous page ($back):

echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='.$back.'">';

I do the same for when they logout as well.

unitedintruth

I can see this at logout:

echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='.$back.'">';

But wouldn't this page at login redirect them back to where they came in?

$back = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

My aim is to redirect them to where they were attempting to go when they clicked and were redirected to the login page.

And, if so, where would I put that code? I am persuming in my form by the submit button, or would it go in the check.php age.