Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Links to phpGW items

[Dave Hall]

"Patrick J. Walsh (mr_e)" <address@hidden> wrote:
>       These are both good implementations.  We will need something that 
> works 
> whether or not cookies are supported though.  And probably whether 
> or not 
> the browser supports refferers, although maybe that's common 
> enough to 
> gloss over.  

Most cookie problems these days are caused by the user disabling them,
while the referer is the only way i can see this being done.  If the
browser doesn't support referers then it might be an incentive for them
to upgrade :)

> I appreciate the suggestions and I may borrow from 
> both.  (Or 
> Seek3r might if he jumps on this first -- which is good by me.)

Go for it

Cheers

skwashd

> 
> ..mr_e
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:40 AM -0600,
> --Tom Gasaway <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I implemented a feature similar to this primarily so that when 
> calendar> users receive email about an event they have been 
> requested to attend,
> > the email can contain a link directly to the Accept/Reject page. 
> The
> > links look something like:
> > 
>
http://.../phpgroupware/index.php?menuaction=calendar.uicalendar.edit_sta>
tus&cal_id=###&owner=###
> >
> > If the user is not already logged in they first go to the login 
> page and
> > then when they  enter their login and password they will be 
> redirected to
> > the desired page. I used a cookie to pass the URL from index.php to
> > home.php.  I also tried to clean up the cookie in function
> > check_logoutcode.  This is working for our purposes, but I am 
> not sure if
> > this is what you are looking for.  I have included the patch below.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Dave Hall wrote:
> >>
> >> Daniel & mr_e,
> >>
> >> This is also a feature I desire.  Sime time ago I had some thoughts
> >> about how (but not actually tried) to implement this.  Here is my
> >> suggestion:
> >>
> >> Somewhere in the login.php script file:
> >>
> >> $server_absolute_url = ( ( !is_intger (strpos
> >> ($GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['webserver_url'], 'http') ) 
> && (
> >> strpos ($GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['webserver_url'], 
> 'http') !=0 )
> >> )  ? $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] .
> >> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['webserver_url'] :
> >> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['webserver_url'] );
> >>
> >> if( !empty (trim( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ) ) )
> >> {
> >>   $link_url = strstr( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 
> $server_absolute_url )
> >>   if( $link_url )
> >>   {
> >>     $this->t->set_var('goto', $GLOBALS['phpgw']->link($link_url);
> >>   }
> >> }
> >> else
> >> {
> >>   $this->t->set_var('goto', $GLOBALS['phpgw']->link($link_url);
> >> }
> >> Then somewhere in the script that checks the login:
> >>
> >> if( !empty( $_POST['goto'] ) )
> >> {
> >>   Header('Location: ' . $GLOBALS['phpgw']->link( $_POST['goto'] 
> ) );
> >>   exit;
> >> }
> >>
> >> As I said I have not implemented this and it is only a concept, 
> but it
> >> might give someone the inspiration to do it and I am sure 
> people can
> >> improve on it.  I have not looked at that code for some time. I 
> also>> apologie for the poor formatting ... email is not real good 
> when you
> >> need the col width to be wider than 80chars :)
> >>
> >> The other advantage is that if a user's session times out they 
> are able
> >> to re login and return to where they left off.  Unfortunately 
> they may
> >> still lose their very long email they were bashing out ... but they
> >> should have had the notify window open.
> >>
> >> Let me know what you think.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> skwashd
> >>
> >> "Patrick J. Walsh (mr_e)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Daniel,
> >> >
> >> >    You are right, there should absolutely be a mechanism for
> >> > redirecting to a
> >> > particular page after logging in.  Unfortunately, this
> >> > functionality does
> >> > not yet exist.  I've been meaning to look into making it work.
> >> > There's a
> >> > good chance there will be something that does this in CVS in the
> >> > near
> >> > future.
> >> >
> >> > ..mr_e
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:16 AM +0200,
> >> > --Koller Daniel <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > Hello,
> >> > >
> >> > > as far as i noticed, it is at the moment not possible to 
> provide>> > (from> outside phpgw) links, that point to links 
> inside phpGW.
> >> > (For example, the
> >> > > new phpTree-module has a link format for downloading a certain
> >> > document),> but if you don't have a session, you end up with the
> >> > login screen (which
> >> > > is ok), but then you don't get redirected to where the link was
> >> > pointing> to.
> >> > >
> >> > > Does anybody know something about this issue, (best if somebody
> >> > knows> already, and can say enable this or that,...)
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards,
> >> > >
> >> > > Daniel
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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