Re: How to navigate backwards in PHP ???

Well, if you have control for the referring page, then create a hidden value whose value is the URL. Then you can use that. The problem is that PHP is a server-side language not a client-side (like JS), so PHP has no control over the browser. "-<>-" <cerberus@mail-telia.dk> wrote in message news:cgsequo9evsmjbuvr3dtkfjai4losn6mop@4ax.com... > This is really puzzling me ... I've tried finding the answer in the manual > ... but sofar without luck... > > What I need to is simply to be able to make a go-back link that points to > the URL that contains the page that had the link that send the user to the > current page ... (did that make sense?) > > Or to put it another way: I need to be able to have a link on page A, > point to page B, and then have page B know the exact URL of page A > (including all variables that's needed to build page A). > > The thing is that simply using <a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"> > doesn't work because the internal links adds the hash-mark (#) after the > URL, and then the browser needs to go one more step backwards for each > time the user clicks on an internal link ... > > I could easily write a JS function to handle all of this, but my goal is > to not use any JS at all, and really, this is something that ought to be > easily doable in PHP ... only I can't figure out how ... does it have > something like Document Referrer ??? which could contain the URL of the > sender, which I'd then be able to plump into a variable, which could then > be used when generating the links to go back to the sender page... > > TIA > > Rene > -- > Rene Brehmer > System developer in the making... > > This message was written on 100% recycled spam. > > My website: http://www.geocities.com/cerberus_hotdog > Babes and computer & internet references...