Cookies and simple data manipulation

[dink87522]

This should be simple, but I can't get it to work now.

 

$score = $_COOKIE["score"];

if(isset($_COOKIE["hsPrev"])){

$hsPrevious = $_COOKIE["hsPrev"];

$hsPreviousSort = explode(",", $hsPrevious, 6);

}else{

$hsRecord = $score;

setcookie("hsPrev", $hsRecord);

}

 

the above doesn't work and the code I had which was mostly working is gone now.

 

$score will equal say 5.

This score is to be stored in the cookie hsPrev.

 

Say the next score = 2. Should be stored/apended to the end of the cookie also i.e. "5,2"

 

I only want their to be 5 scores in the cookie (i.e. say "4,2,12,3,9"), the 5 latest, so the older scores should be removed and this is predominantly where I am having trouble. Can someone help me with this?

 

[RussellReal]

don't use cookies for this.. its so easy to spoof a score.. use a session.. and sessions r so much easier..

 

session_start();

if (isset($_SESSION['hsPrev'])) {

  $_SESSION['hsPrev'][] = $newScoreToBeAppended

} else {

  $_SESSION['hsPrev'] = array();

  $_SESSION['hsPrev'][] = $newScore;

}

 

that will build $_SESSION['hsPrev'] as such:

 

hsPrev (

  [0] = 4,

  [1] = 6,

  [2] = 2,

  [3] = 5

)

 

and so on and so forth.. then when you want to look thru the scores just call it like you would have after you explode by ',' for example

 

$_SESSION['hsPrev'][0] will equal 4 in the given example.

[dink87522]

Thanks, as usual I was trying to over-complicate it.