Redirect user after log in

[jose07]

Hello,

I'm having trouble trying to redirect users after they've logged in.

My site shows different types of adverts but some adv are restricted to registered users, on the home page they can see the the title of the adv but if they click on the title and are not logged in then they are taken to the log in page, Now my problem is how do i then re-direct them back to the adv they were trying to see?

if i just redirect them to index.php that won't help because index shows few adv. I hope that makes sense.

Any help much appreciated.

[dagon]

you need to store (sessions probably) what url they where trying to visit before you redirect them to login page, then after they log in send to the original page they wanted

[DaveRandom]

If the login page is generated by the link they clicked, the url by which they accessed the login page will be the url you want to redirect them to after login, so you can add e.g. an extra hidden form element that contains this data to the login page -

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_dest" value="http://<?php print($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" />

If the link they clicked redirects them to a login page, the path you want to redirect them back to is probably in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], so you could put this in your (e.g.) extra form element.