Dont display again

[doddsey_65]

Ive created a notice system which shows notices to the visitors of my forum. The thing is though I need a system where the logged in user can close the notice and not have it displayed again. What would be the best way to accomplish this? Would cookies be the best idea? Because that would mean setting a cookie for every notice that has been closed.As far as i can think of that's the only way. Any thoughts?

[MasterACE14]

store it in the database? Have one of two possible options, and in the notice system check whether it's the first or second option. If first option(default), show notices, otherwise if second option don't show them. Atleast then if they access your site from a different computer they won't have to close the notices again.

[iStriide]

You could probably create a table for the notifications and when the user clicks the "close" button it would send the word "hide" or whatever you want to the database so you can use a if statement to hide it.

 

Ex:

<?php

//When person clicks hide button
mysql_query("UPDATE notifications SET notification_type = '$notification_type', user = '$Session_or_Cookie', display = 'hide'") or trigger_error(mysql_error());

//then on the forum
$find = "SELECT notification_type, display FROM notifications WHERE user = '$Session_or_Cookie'";
$run = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($find)) or trigger_error(mysql_error());

$notification = $run['notification_type'];
$display = $run['display'];

if($display = "hide"){

}else{

echo "
$notification
";

}

?>

[teamatomic]

if you keep you notices in a table then store the ID of closed notices in another table then- when you grab the notices to display use UNIQUE to display only wanted notices

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic