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[dr.ew]

hi,
Ok, you know how many sites have 'footsteps' so you can retrace the pages you've been to..(like on this page: kirupaForum > Help > Server-Side...)
Obviously this is really easy to do when you have sites that follow a logical linear hierarchy...But, what if you have links going all over the place?

Is it possible to figure out the last, say, 4 pages the user has viewed on a site, and offer these links in 'footsteps'?

If it is, how would you go about doing that? Anyways, just curious if this can be done.

Cheers =]

[eyezberg]

Hi dr, yes, what you talk about is generally called "breadcrumbs" (which you leave behind so you can find your way back later...if the birds don't eat 'em..)
You can do this with any website, as you can access the browser history and the refering page (where you come from) with PHP, the general idea is to push each new page into an array, and when you click back, pop the last element out again.
I suggest a google search on php & breadcrumbs..

[DigitalPimp]

That is very cool to know eyezberg. I've never known what that was called.

[dr.ew]

Thanks for the reply eyezberg...I will do that search!
I had tried 'footsteps,' somehow i got that confused with the term 'breadcrumbs,' hehe..

cheers=]

Here is a good javascript breadcrumbs page i found from the search, if anyone else is interested.
http://webmediaconception.com/de/development/artikel/JS_breadcrumbs.en.html