[SOLVED] PHP page protection

[joshysquashy]

Hi,

 

I have a protected area on my website, and every protected page has the following at the top:

<? include_once("../php/protect.php"); ?>

 

The protect.php file is:

<?PHP 
$back = "<form><input type='button' value='< Back' onclick='history.back()'></form>"; 
$acc_denied = "<font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><h3>Access Denied, <a href=\"http://clients.uniquesite.co.uk/\">Please Login</a></h3></font>".$back;
if (!isset($_COOKIE["verified"])) { die($acc_denied); } 
?>

 

What I want is for the page to redirect to index.php?status=2, and I have tried doing:

<?PHP 
if (!isset($_COOKIE["verified"])) { header ("Location:http://clients.uniquesite.co.uk/index.php?status=2"); } 
?>

 

But now the page is redirected regardless of the cookie. Why does it always redirect this way? Why does the die() command doing to stop the page loading conditionally, but this does permanently?

 

I'm sure the solution will be a simple one, but I'm stumped!

 

Many thanks.

 

[joshysquashy]

My bad!

 

I deleted the setcookie command from the verification! Didn't realise I had done that!

 

All fixed now!

[p2grace]

Glad you got it working,

 

Could you hit the Topic Solved button so people don't have to check

 

Thank you!