Thanks all. I ended up using a $_SESSION[] as Mark S. suggested, and
checked if the session var is empty, if it is then redirect.
On Dec 4, 1:06 pm, "Mark S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi rusdvl,
> I believe you are trying to achieve something like a step by step
> process where you don't want to a user to skip to step n directly but,
> instead be from step (n-1). There are quite few ways to achieve
> something similar to what you want although, the underlying principal
> remains the same i.e. you need a way to keep track of the last visited
> page.
> You can use HTTP_REFERER but, as Nathan suggested it cannot be
> considered as a solid solution due the nature of the technologies
> controlling the content e.g. a firewall or web-server settings.
> If you are in control of all the resources/pages in the web-
> application then, this is what you can do-
> 1. Assign each page an ID (Does not always have to be a number)
> 2. This ID can be stored in a cookie(encrypt to be more secure),
> session, GET variable, POST to another page etc.
> Depends on your requirements.
> 3. On the page, where you want to put a check, find out if any of the
> variables' mentioned above contain the expected ID, if not, redirect
> otherwise, continue.
>
> Let me know, if this works out for you.
>
> Regards,
> Mark S.
>
> On Dec 4, 11:25 am, rusdvl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > How do I redirect a person to a different page if they didnt come from
> > a particular page?
>
> > I know I use the header(); function but not sure what to place in the
> > if()
>
> > So it would be:
>
> > if(something something)
> > {
> > header('Location: index.php');
> > }
>
> > Thanks ahead for the help.
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