Redirect using session

[doddsey_65]

Ok so a user tries to access a part of the site that requires them to login. So they are taken to the login page. but when they login I want them transfered to the page they were going to. So i thought of something like:

 

<a href="securepage.php" onClick="<?php echo $_SESSION['clicked_link'] = $site_root.'securepage.php'; ?>">
Click Here
</a>

 

But when I echo $_SESSION['clicked_link'] not only am i getting the url i am getting the content after.

 

echoed it looks like:

 

http://www.thevault.cz.cc/securepage.php">Click Here

 

So is there a better way to do it? if not what would i need to do to remove everything after the " ?

[BlueSkyIS]

when the un-logged-in user goes to a page that requires login, set a session variable that saves that URL. after log in, header() them back to the URL saved in the session variable.

[doddsey_65]

i am saving the url to a session and when it redirects me to the login page i am echoing thesession for debugging and it looks fine. It displays the url.

 

However when i login the session is destroyed and echoes nothing. Thus my header redirect does nothing. Any ideas why the session is being destroyed?

 

This is an example of a link that you can click which needs you to be logged in. If you arent then you are redirected to the login page where i am echoing the session:

 

<a href="'.$site_root.'/profile.php?user='.$forum_info->user_id.'" title="Visit '.$forum_info->user_username.'\'s Profile" 
onClick="'.$_SESSION["clicked_link"] = $site_root.'/profile.php?user='.$forum_info->user_id.'">'.$forum_info->user_username.'</a>

[BlueSkyIS]

on the page with the link, are you starting the file with session_start()?

[doddsey_65]

yes i am using session_start();

 

could it be something to do with the onClick function? It stores the session fine when i am taken to the login page but when i submit the form it destroys it.

[BlueSkyIS]

what does the link HTML look like when you View Source?

[trq]

onClick is a client side event. You cannot use it to trigger php because php executes on the server.

 

The only thing you could do would be to send a request back to the server (Ajax).

[doddsey_65]

onClick is a client side event. You cannot use it to trigger php because php executes on the server.

 

The only thing you could do would be to send a request back to the server (Ajax).

 

any tips on how to do that?

[trq]

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/