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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 89

Get previous page link After refreshing the page

I am building a website with WordPress.

I try to get the previous page link with the wp_get_referer function.

The problem is when the user is refreshing the page the value of this function is empty. How can I solve it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2605

Answers (2)

simmer
simmer

Reputation: 2711

After you've gotten the referring value via wp_get_referer(), you'll need to save it for this user in a cookie.

Add this to your functions.php:

function getReferer() {
  // check for a referer
  $referer = wp_get_referer();

  // if there is one, save it to a cookie
  if (!empty($referer)) {
    setcookie("referer_url", $referer, time()+3600);
  }
  // if no referrer, check for a previously-saved cookie
  else {
    if (isset($_COOKIE['referer_url'])){
      // sweet, get it from the cookie
      $referer = $_COOKIE['referer_url'];
    }
  }

  return $referer;
}

Now, wherever you need to try to get the referer somewhere in your template or plugin files:

$referer = getReferer();

Upvotes: 2

Hashaam
Hashaam

Reputation: 125

You can do with $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] link back to previous page

Upvotes: 0

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