In need of cookie help

[tourbike]

Hi I am trying to learn php before my university begins in the fall but I am stuck on cookies.

 

What I want to happen is that when a user comes to a page, a cookie is given to that user and moves the user to another page. On this other page it will check if a cookie has been set and move user to x location, however if no cookie has been set then the redirect send the user back to the page that hands out the cookies.

 

So I created to different pages:

 

1. cookie.php (this hands out the cookie)

code as follows:

 

<?php

 

// Set a cookie

// Cookie name: name

// Cookie value: cookie

// Cookie expire: in 1 hours

 

setcookie ('name', 'cookie', time() + (60*60*1));

 

// Now check that cookie is loaded

error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_WARNING ^ E_NOTICE);

 

// Check if cookie has been set or not

if ($_GET[$_COOKIE['name']] != 'cookie') {

// Set cookie

setcookie ('name', 'cookie', time() + 60);

 

// Reload page

header ("Location: checkcook.php");

} else {

// Check if cookie exists

if (!empty($_COOKIE['name'])) {

echo "Cookies are NOT enabled on your browser";

}

}

?>

 

page two that checks the cookie and if no cookie exists then

 

2. cookiecheck.php

<?

// check cookie is correct value

if(!isset($_COOKIE['cookie'])) {

header("location:correct_location.php");

} else {

// if failed then go back to page

header ("Location:cookie.php");

}

?>

 

I hope someone can just help where I am going wrong with my thinking thanks

 

tourbike

[inversesoft123]

if(isset($_COOKIE['name'])) 

 

Check cookies like this. on first page

 

 

[tourbike]

thank you very much for your help