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[Northern Monkey]

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Morning all,

Have no more hair to pull so thought I'd ask a basic question.

I want to create a variable that holds the previously visited URL on my site e.g.

I have $_SESSION['previous_page'] = $_SERVER['PHPSELF'];

But when I call it from /catalogue.php?r=2&c=5

The variable only holds /catalogue.php

Anyone know a better way to go back to the previous url with it's parameter's?

Cheers,

Chris.

[Barry]

Hi

You could either use

$_SESSION['previous_page'] = $_SERVER['PHPSELF']."?".$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'];

which would have to be in the previous page


or you could try using the reffer document

$_SESSION['previous_page'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

but you would have to use this code in the document that you were executing.

[matbennett]

Try using REQUEST_URI rather than PHP_SELF .

This will also preserve the get vars

[Northern Monkey]

Thanks all, new it would be simple.

Chris.

[999gi]

I think the variable you need is $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] but this is empty if anyone is using Norton privacy