Thank you all very much, I

IO.Relentless — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:40:15 +0000

Thank you all very much, I will get to work and implement it. Will let you know what I did. Got to do some darn Uni work first though

Peace.

Relentless.

I would not recommend not

decibel.places — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:24:42 +0000

I would not recommend not using the referrer.

While your intended meaning is clear, your syntax encourages using referrer.

[grammar police]

I would not recommend not

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:46:18 +0000

I would not recommend not using the referrer. Those can be spoofed, and browsers can even be configured to not send them. I use matt's method on all user-login sites I do.

If the login page is also

decibel.places — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:37:06 +0000

If the login page is also the processing page, you could redirect to the referrer page

PHP: HTTP_REFERER

JavaScript: document.referrer

[note that REFERER in PHP has three "R"s while referrer in JS has four]

The way I would do it is

teammatt3 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:02:00 +0000

The way I would do it is save a session of the URL they accessed (and then redirect them to the login page). Then, once they login, check if that session is set, and redirect them to the page.

So one some internal page, you would have something like:

if user is not logged in, then
   save current URL in session variable 
   redirect the user to the login page
else
   show the page
endif

And on the login page you would have something like:

if the login form was submitted, then
  if the user's credentials are good, then
     if the session is set, then
        redirect user to URL saved in session
     endif
   else
      send the user to the regular page
   endif
else
  send the user back to the login page
endif
  