see: http://www.eat-drink-etc.com/
I have this code in the header of all the sites' pages:
<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['responsibility'])) {
//echo '{redirect="responsibility/message"}';
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>window.location = '{site_url}responsibility/message'</script>";
}?>
Redirecting to mydomain/responsibility/message if the user is a first time (or hasn't visited recently) visitor to the site.
In the message page I have the following:
<?php
session_start();
/*if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {
$params = session_get_cookie_params();
setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,
$params["path"], $params["domain"],
$params["secure"], $params["httponly"]
);
}
$_SESSION = array();*/?>
function setcookielive($name, $value='', $expire=0, $path='', $domain='', $secure=false, $httponly=false) {
//set a cookie as usual, but ALSO add it to $_COOKIE so the current page load has access
$_COOKIE[$name] = $value;
return setcookie($name,$value,$expire,$path,$domain,$secure,$httponly);
}
if(isset($_POST['set'])) {
if(isset($_POST['remember'])) {
/*if(setcookielive("responsibility", "confirmed", time()+60*60*24*30*24, "/")) {
}*/
$_SESSION['responsibility'] = 'confirmed';
echo '{redirect="/"}';
}
else {
/*if(setcookielive("responsibility", "confirmed", time()+60*60*24, "/")) {
}*/
$_SESSION['responsibility'] = 'confirmed';
echo '{redirect="/"}';
}
}?>
The page uses a from input to enter the site:
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="set" value="set" />
<input type="hidden" name="remember" value="true" />
<input type="image" src="{site_url}images/elements/enter-btn.png" width="95" height="26" alt="Enter" value="Enter" />
</form>
Example: if a user goes to http://www.eat-drink-etc.com/articles/fi_europe_ni_2011 they will be redirected to the responsibility/message page. When enter is clicked the user is taken to the home page. (as specified)
How do I redirect to the originally targeted url??? eg. ../articles/fi_europe_ni_2011
Fisrtly, why are you performing the browser redirect through Javascript (client side) when you could do the same thing server side with a header("Location: $url;"); call?
<?php
ob_start();
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['responsibility'])) {
ob_end_clean();
header("Location: $url; ");
exit;
}
// etc... you would need to call ob_end_flush(); before ending the page if you plan to have output here.
Something like that, to start with.
To answer your question: You would need to retrieve the current URL and store it as a session property before redirecting to the messages page. To amend my above example:
<?php
ob_start();
session_start();
$_SESSION['last_url'] = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
// etc
You could then access this URL on the confirmation page by again performing a header redirect like this:
header("Location: {$_SESSION['last_url']}");
You could do:
<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['responsibility'])) {
header("Location: /responsibility/message?refer=" . urlencode($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]));
}?>
And on your responsibility page you do something like:
if(isset($_POST['set'])) {
if(isset($_POST['remember'])) {
$_SESSION['responsibility'] = 'confirmed';
if( isset($_GET['refer']) )
header("Location: " . $_GET['refer']);
}
}
You might need to add a few checks to the $_GET['refer'] so that it won't get abused but you get the idea