Embarrassing question

[eggerda]

Hello,

 

I'm a beginner, and I told someone I knew more than I did...now I've got to figure this out.

 

This is simple for anyone that knows what they are doing...and unfortunately, I don't.

 

Basically I need the simplest code to accomplish the following:

 

When a visitor comes to a page, I need to check for a cookie... if the cookie is empty I need to write out a line of html code (a tracking image).  If the cookies has an "X" value in it, I don't want to display the line of html code (the tracking image).

 

This is supposedly easy, but I've been struggling to get it to work write.

 

How would you do it?

 

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[teng84]

the answer is also here

 

When a visitor comes to a page, I need to check for a cookie... if the cookie is empty I need to write out a line of html code (a tracking image).  If the cookies has an "X" value in it, I don't want to display the line of html code (the tracking image).

 

and

if the cookie is empty

{

write out a line of html code

}

else

{

display the line of html code (the tracking image)

}

you've already answered your question

[eggerda]

Yes, but I'm having a hard time writing the code...it's just not working... I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

 

At the top of the page I have:

 

<?

if (empty($_COOKIE['TrackThis'])) {

$code = "http://trackingcode.com";

setcookie("TrackThis", $random_number, time()+60*60*24*30*12);

        }

?>

 

The in the body I have:

 

<? echo $code ?>

 

What did I do wrong?

 

Dan