Question

I’m not sure which is the best way to do this, so I would love to hear some ideas.

Ok, let’s say we have this link/url => www.myscript.com/clients.php?id=5

If I try to open it, I get redirected to www.myscript.com/login.php, because I’m not logged in, and then when I get logged in I don’t get redirected to original link/url www.myscript.com/clients.php?id=5 as I would like to.

So what should I add to login.php to achieve such acting/working?

Keep in mind that URL migt be different such as:

- www.myscript.com/clients.php?id=5
- www.myscript.com/orders.php?invoice=125

etc…

Answer 1

you would need to add a tracking value to your scripts, if you added this to all pages (or an element of your site which appears on every page…?)

<?php
session_start(); // only if you are not already using sessions - if you are, you don't need this line
if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != 'login.php') && ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != $_SESSION['oldURL'])) {
    $_SESSION['oldURL']     = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];    
}
?>

Then in your login page, where you want the redirect you can use $_SESSION['oldURL']