javascript automatic go back, ok or PHP Options

[phoenixpyre]

i need to know if there is a way to do the following:

>Click a link that goes to a page
>have that page it goes to display a message like "this page isnt here"
>and automatically redirect BACK (as in history BACK) one page??

[*mipadi*]

I'm not a JavaScript guru. I do know that the last page in history can be accessed via JavaScript like this:

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history.go(-1)

so if you can find a way to feed that to a redirect in JavaScript, you're set.

You could do it with PHP, too. When clicking a link, this will give you the page that the user came from:

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$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

which you could then feed to header() like so:

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<?php
header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
?>

The problem is that header() does not work if any text (i.e. html coding) has been written to the HTTP stream already. In other words, you can't send part of a webpage and then use header() to redirect.

Maybe this will give you a place to start, though.