Back to previous page with header Location in PHP

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The title of this question kind of explains my question  How do I redirect the PHP page visitor back to their previous page with the header   Location  URL of previous page

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try   header  Location        SERVER  HTTP REFERER       Note that this may not work with secure pages  HTTPS  and it s a pretty bad idea overall as the header can be hijacked  sending the user to some other destination  The header may not even be sent by the browser   Ideally  you will want to either    Append the return address to the request as a query variable  eg   back  list  Define a return page in your code  ie  all successful form submissions redirect to the listing page  Provide the user the option of where they want to go next  eg  Save and continue editing or just Save

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Storing previous url in a session variable is bad  because the user might right click on multiple pages and then come back and save   unless you save the previous url in the session variable to a hidden field in the form and after save header   Location  save URL of calling page

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You have to save that location somehow   Say it s a POST form  just put the current location in a hidden field and then use it in the header   Location

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Its so simple just use this   header  location javascript   history go -1       Its working fine for me

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Just try this in Javascript     previous    javascript history go -1      Or you can try it in PHP   if isset   SERVER  HTTP REFERER            previous     SERVER  HTTP REFERER

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Just a little addition  I believe it s a common and known thing to add exit  after the header function in case we don t want the rest of the code to load or execute     header  Location        SERVER  HTTP REFERER     exit

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