Question

I basically nees a redirect, but the my problem is the first url must be stored otherwise the other page will not display.

how do i get jquery or javascript to store the current (or specified) url, then once stored it must load a different (specified) url?

Answer 1

You can’t simply store it in a variable, because when a new URL is loaded, the entire javascript context is new. You can store the current URL in a cookie, though.

If you’re trying to pass the URL from one page to the next, the cookie approach will only work if the two pages are on the same domain.

If you have any kind of server-side component in your stack (e.g. PHP) it seems like a more sensible approach would be to store the URL server-side.

Edited to add: You requested sample code for the cookies. Reading and writing cookies in Javascript requires a certain amount of boilerplate code; there are example methods here or you can use a jQuery plugin.

Once you have a simple way to write and read your cookies, you can just do (this syntax uses the jquery plugin)

//assuming "newURL" hold the new url you want to load
$.cookie("currentURL",window.location.href);
window.location = newURL;

Then on the next page you can get the old URL:

var oldURL = $.cookie("currentURL");