Finding previous case statement

[kilbey1]

Is there a way to discover the case statement that a self-posting page has just come from? I.E. in the case of case $_POST['submit'], each time a user posts the form, we can alert the user if a 'New' article has been successfully posted (having come from case 'new').

switch($action) {
	case $_POST['submit']:
		if($action['new']) {
			echo "Came from new";
		}
	break;
	case 'new':
		$addnews = new newsHandler();
		$addnews->pageTitle("New Article");
		$oFCKeditor->Value		= '' ;
		$oFCKeditor->Create() ;
	break;
.....

Or is this not a good way to handle this?

Thanks,
Eve

[rebelo]

I think what you want to do is probably set a session variable or some other flag in the 'new' case which can be looked at from elsewhere to get the information you want. For instance, when you create a new blog post in some hypothetical blog system, you might then redirect to the page that shows the new blog post or a listing and have it display a notice box with something like "New blog post created OK" or something similar, which is just text it grabs from a $_SESSION['notice'] variable and then clears it, or something similar. Is this what you're wanting to accomplish?