Redirect after successful login to referring page

When you say "this always picks up the first if statement" do you mean the if statement that checks for the session and redirects to the login or the variable = search?

Keep in mind that if you say:

if($variable = "search")

then it will ALWAYS equal search because one = sign means "assignment" while two equals signs == is for comparison. In other words:

$variable = "search" assigns the value of "search" to $variable.
$variable == "search" is a check to see if variable is equal to search, and if so, it returns true, otherwise if it is not equal, it returns false.

so you'll want to say:
if($variable == "search")

But then again, I'm not sure if this is the first "if" statement you're talking about, since technically it's the third.

- Jonathan

sorry for the confusion

I do use == for comparison

and i the if i mean is techincaly the 3rd if ( i meant the first if with in the if )

:|

but it still only ever picks up the value of the 'third if', and never the 4th or 5th, if it is meant to be them assigned.

Hope this clears things up!

You could always just pass the $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] to the login page as a variable, then when the are authorized redirect them to the page.

I have tried a number of suggested ways and all to the same result.

At the start of my search page i have the code:

if(!$_SESSION['forename'])
{       
      $message = "Please log in to access the advanced search facility.<br><br>";
      include ('account.php');
      exit();
}

The user is not logged in and so redirected to the log in page (account.php).

When the user has been verified I attempt to then redirect them to the page they were looking for

     $referal = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
     echo "$referal"; //      just to test            
     include ('$referal');  
     exit();

I always get login.php (the login script) as the referal page, not search.php. I have tried declaring the variable also at the beginning of the file, and also in the search.php file.

I can provide the files it it would help, but there is a lot of code for this window really!

Thanks.
      

Open up your php.ini file and see what you have set for session.save_path.

it should be either /tmp or /sessiondata

then go to your PHP directory and make sure that you have that folder.  If not create it or change the php.ini file.

on each page I store the page name inside a session variable, so if they are not logged in, and try to access that page they are taken to teh login page, if the login is successful then i check if that session variable has been set and redirect to that page, if not then i redirect to the index page.