Question

I have done a few searches for this issue and I have come up empty handed. I hope somebody can clarify things for me and point me in the right direction.

Problem: I have a page that displays a list of results after submitting a search form. When a user clicks on one of the results, the browser goes to a new page showing more information about the result. When the user then clicks the ‘back’ button to go pack to the results, my browser reloads the page and shows the top of the page instead of the result that was last clicked.

Goal: What I would like is this: when the user click’s the back button, the browser should go back to the previous page and, instead of showing the top of the page, show the page at the previous position.

Solution: I am completely lost as how this result can be achieved. Could it have something to do with javascript, or headers sent to the browsers, maybe something to do with caching.

Answer 1

I fixed this issue by sending headers with php. This was my solution:

header("Expires: 0");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: store, cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", FALSE);

Thanks to everybody for the help.