Magento 1.7 – How to Implement Back Button

magento-1.7url

I want to implement a "back button" which will takes the user to the previous page on clicking.
Then the page before that, then the page before that and so on.
So far I have done something like this..

<?php
      $url = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getServer('HTTP_REFERER');
      if ((strpos($url, Mage::app()->getStore()->getBaseUrl()) !== 0) && (strpos($url, Mage::app()->getStore()->getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK, true)) !== 0)) {
      $url = Mage::app()->getStore()->getBaseUrl();
}
?>
<div class="link2Back"><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">Back to ... </a></div>

but it just going back to the one recent previous page only.
What are the other possible methods for this problem ?

Best Answer

have you tried using javascript?

<a href=”#” onClick=”Javascript:history.back();”>GO back</a>

The only problem with this, is that when a user enters your product page from let's say, goolge, the user will be redirected to google.

You can also take a look at this threat: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5285031/back-to-previous-page-with-header-location-in-php

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Create a new instance of Mage_Checkout_Block_Cart as e.g. custom_methods, assign that as the child of your column parent (e.g. "right"), and then set the checkout.cart.top_methods block as a child of your block:

<checkout_cart_index>
    <reference name="right">
        <block name="custom_methods" type="checkout/cart" template="custom/template.phtml" >
            <action method="insert">
                <block>checkout.cart.top_methods</block>
                <sib></sib>
                <after />
                <alias>myMethodDisplay</alias>
            </action>
        </block>
    </reference>
</checkout_cart_index>

Then in your custom/template.phtml, do the following:

<div class="page-title title-buttons">
    <?php if(!$this->hasError()): ?>
    <ul class="checkout-types">
    <?php foreach ($this->getMethods('myMethodDisplay') as $method): ?>
        <?php if ($methodHtml = $this->getMethodHtml($method)): ?>
        <li><?php echo $methodHtml; ?></li>
        <?php endif; ?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
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    <?php endif; ?>
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Magento – Back button on product details page after search results

Since you are using history.back() there is no need to check if a product has a category. When coming from the search results the product has no category attached to it.
So you can remove the if statement. This way the button will behave just like pressing back in the browser. It will take you to the previous page no mater what. Even if you clicked on a related product or if you come from the cart page.
EDIT
Here is a way to get the page referrer

Mage::app()->getRequest()->getServer('HTTP_REFERER');

You can check if the referred contains the string /catalogsearch/ and add it to your if statement.

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