Back buton - several pages back - in HTML ?

[attila001122]

Hello,

I dont know if someone had the same problems, but it seem to me that it is quite common.

For a service I would offer my visitors to log in or register...
Then after registering or logging in I would like to direct them back to the page where they had been diverted from.
And the number of steps and the page are not always the same.

Is there a way to "remember" the page name when click on register or login and at the end of the reg/log process go back there?

Thanks


Attila

[flabbyrabbit]

Google "php sessions", that should help you out.

Flabby Rabbit

[kalaid]

Hi,
I want to know in detail. Please explain me with an example how to do this with 'php sessions'.

[attila001122]

Yes...

Do I need to install PHP and local server and mysql, or there is a simple code I can paste?

Thanks

[knowa]

Well, your webserver will need php, mysql is not required. But - why don't you just use Javascript?

[flabbyrabbit]

Ok how would you do it in javascript??

Flabby Rabbit

[knowa]

Just history.back(1) or history.back(2) or whatever..

[flabbyrabbit]

And the number of steps and the page are not always the same.

So your way would not work, you would need to save the page they were on and then link back to it at the end of the registration

Flabby Rabbit

[attila001122]

Well, your webserver will need php, mysql is not required. But - why don't you just use Javascript?

Ok...

Funny, every time I was trying to install PHP somehow I could not avoid to get involved with mysql... and mostly went wrong...
On this machine I have not attempted yet.

Anyway...

My server does supports PHP...
Do you know where can be found the code ?

[flabbyrabbit]

Well you want to save the page that they registered from to a session, then at the end of the registration process to go back to that page.
The two things you will need to know is:

PHP sessions
PHP header redirect

Search those two on google and you should be able to work it out, if not then ask me again.

Flabby Rabbit