RE: [PHP] Re: URL of calling page

dude - try this: echo $HTTP_REFERER; It'l give you the refering page from when you came. Luke Woollard -----Original Message----- From: Brendon [mailto:brendon@brendon.com] Sent: Monday, 17 February 2003 3:17 PM To: Acleave Subject: [PHP] Re: URL of calling page On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:58:30 -0600, Acleave <acleave@uark.edu> wrote: > I believe there's a way in PHP to get the URL of the page that called the > current page but can't find it. Is there such a function? Or would I > have to use another script (like Javascript)? > > What I mean is if I click on a link on index.html to jeremiah.php I can > call the function and find out I just came from index.html (and not > henry.php or fred.php). If you're trying to get back to a page, I would suggest passing the current page as a variable to the next page. e.g. <a href="somepage.php?return_to=<? echo urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ?>">Subscribe</a> -- _BB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php