$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_REFERER"]; - or - PHP 4.1.0 and later $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
Not as reliable as passing it yourself though. HTH -Shawn "-<>-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
