Hi!

I’ve got a template in which I’d like to use the URL Helper’s {referrer} to determine wether a user has reached a project page by clicking on the thumbnail from the homepage or from an overview listing and then build a “back” button to turn them back to the previous page.

Think of these three templates:

/ (grid with thumbnails of all types of projects)
/design/ (thumbnails of only design projects)
/design/project-title/ (specific project on which we have the Back button)

If user comes from / to /design/project-title/ the back button should point them back at /
If user comes from /design/ to /design/project-title/ the back button should point them back to /design/

My current logic is

{if "{referrer}" == "{homepage}"}path to homepage{if:else}path to type specific overview page{/if}

In the above example I’ve noticed that even if the 2 values (referrer and homepage) are identical the if statement will always return false.

To mitigate this I switched to using Switchee:

{switchee variable="{referrer}" parse="inward"}
    {case value="{homepage}"}
    Point to homepage
    {/case}

    {case default="yes"}
    point to section overview page
    {/case}
{/switchee}

The latter (using switchee) works well, but the problem I’ve identified is that it seems the value of {referrer} is being cached by having template caching turned on.

So if I navigate from / to /design/project-title/ the first time the referrer will be / and as such the back button is being written to point to the homepage.
If I now revisit this page but my origin page is /design/ then the back button still points to the homepage.

Is there any way of for example having {referrer random} to disable tag caching or is there any way (ideally without turning off template caching) to have this back button point to the correct page?

Thanks for reading,
Jannis