Hi,

I notice that most popular sites have this function. I'm not sure what its called so I'll try my best to describe it.

Lets say you browse a page, then you click a link thats members only. You'll come across a page stating something like..."Members Area! Please log-in or Register for free!"

Then you enter your member details and when logging in you are taken to the page you were previously trying to view.

What is the best method to retain the previously viewed page and then pass it through the members log-in form, so that when your authentication script is called, it takes you to the correct area.

If anyone knows where I should start with this? Is it cookies? What if cookies is not enabled? Do most popular sites use cookies to do this?

Thank you, helpful replies are greatly appreciated!

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In reply to Member log-in: remembering url by Anonymous Monk

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