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want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8408]

Mon, 27 January 2003 16:54

kowitsch

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Hello FUD community,

I am looking for a way to logout and jump to another page outside the forum with the same click.
I thought I could use the "returnto" variable for that, but for whatever reason it didn't work. Logout works fine by submitting:

&logout=1

in a link in my header-template, but redirecting seems to be ignored:

<a href="{ROOT}?t=login&amp;{DEF: _rsid}&amp;returnto=%2Findex.html&amp;logout=1">leave forum</a>

Do I miss something.
I didn't find explaination on the "returnto" var here at the support forum.

Thank you very much in advance

Kowitsch

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Re: want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8410 is a reply to message #8408]

Mon, 27 January 2003 18:49

Ilia

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returnto contains the URL where the user should be redirected once the form is executed.

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Re: want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8413 is a reply to message #8408]

Mon, 27 January 2003 19:54

kowitsch

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Hello Prottoss,

you are super fast in answering - thank you.

I just tried the above at home on my test server (W2K/Apache/PHP/MySQL/Perl). The following line works fine

http://myserver/forum/index.php?t=login&rid=1&S=ffc73dad92d5bb605ba ed62dda4ecaeb&returnto=%2Findex.html%3Ft%3Dindex%26rid%3D%26S%3Dffc73da d92d5bb605baed62dda4ecaeb&logout=1

and calls file /index.html which directs to my apache root as desired.

The "real" web-server is based on Linux/PHP/MySQL/Perl. It correctly logs out, but always returns to the forum/index.php file.
Why could this difference be?

Kind regards

Kowitsch

[Updated on: Mon, 27 January 2003 19:58]

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Re: want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8414 is a reply to message #8413]

Mon, 27 January 2003 20:39

Ilia

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The return to code can be found inside
return.inc.t, specifically the check_return() function.

It works by breaking up the passed URL and passing it to index.php which then loads an appropriate page.

In your case the solution is to create a simple PHP script and place it in the forum directory.

That script will redirect the user to any URL you desire and then call exit().

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Re: want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8422 is a reply to message #8408]

Tue, 28 January 2003 01:22

kowitsch

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Hello Prottoss,
it took me the whole evening to figure out what you had in mind. Some people are slower than others.
But after all, it works now.

Did you mean a solution like this (for other users as slow as me)?

I made a file myredir.php with a fixed redir-value

<?php
header("Location: http://myserver");
exit();
?>

placed it in "/forum/theme/default"

and called it via

<a href="{ROOT}?t=login&amp;{DEF: _rsid}&amp;returnto={ROOT}?t=myredir&amp;logout=1">back to homepage</a>

which I inserted in my header template.

Question:
What happens to myredir.php and the modified header template, if I upgrade FUD?

P.S. I realized why my home server did the logout+redir the way I described in my first post and the "real" server didn't.
The home server had v2.2.3 of fud. The "real" server had v2.3.6. When I updated my home server, my redirection method didn't work as well. The check_return() function you mentioned has been completely rewritten since then. Now all "returnto" calls go via index.php?t=abc... instead of direct calls as in v2.2.3. Suppose, this was for security reasons.

Thank you Prottoss

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Re: want to logout and leave forum with one click [message #8423 is a reply to message #8422]

Tue, 28 January 2003 01:30

Ilia

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your PHP script will never be touched unless for some reason a forum script under the same name is created. The modified header.tmpl will also remain untouched unless the source template is modified which very rarely happens.

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