Cookies and PHP

[joebez]

Hello everybody!

 

I a, trying to come up with a solution and I wonder if one of you have an idear!

 

 

Lets say that I have 3 sub domains:

 

http://california.mewebsitezx.biz

http://nevada.mewebsitezx.biz

http://texas.mewebsitezx.biz

 

and I have a splash page on mewebsitezx.biz

 

When a visitor goes to mewebsitezx.biz they will be able to click on a link from the list below:

 

<a href="http://california.mewebsitezx.biz">CA</a>

<a href="http://nevada.mewebsitezx.biz">NV</a>

<a href="http://texas.mewebsitezx.biz">TX</a>

 

 

I was wondering if a cookie session should be created to automatically redirect the visitors to the location they have selected in the past?

 

 

I am not sure how to proceed with this I am sure one of you worked with something similar.

 

Thank you in advance for all the help and creativity.

 

Joe

 

[JJohnsenDK]

i think you should go with the cookie session idea, that is what i would have done.

 

if you dont know anything about cookies have a look at the setcookie() function:

 

http://dk.php.net/manual/da/function.setcookie.php

[drummer101]

<?
if(isset($_COOKIE['location'])){
echo "<meta 
http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"5; url=http://" . $_COOKIE['location'] . "/mewebsitezx.biz\">";
echo "Please wait 10 seconds while the page loads, or click <a href=\"http://" . $_COOKIE . "/mewebsitezx.biz\">here</a> to be redirected.";
} else {
echo "Please select a location:<br><a href=\"http://california.mewebsitezx.biz\">CA</a><br><a href=\"http://nevada.mewebsitezx.biz\">NV</a><br><a href=\"http://texas.mewebsitezx.biz\">TX</a>";
}
?>

 

Then on each respective page, check if the cookie exists, if not, prompt the user if they'd like to accept it and be remembered next time they visit, then set the cookie, else, do nothing.

 

Hope that gets you started

[joebez]

Every thing works fine but the http refer it is not referring, I wonder if cookies are getting set!  :'(

[drummer101]

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['_____'])){
echo "cookie is set<br>Value is: " . $_COOKIE['_____'];
} else {
echo "Something went wrong, and the cookie wasn't set";
}
?>

[joebez]

Yep its not setting!

[revraz]

I don't see any code in this thread that shows where you set it.

[drummer101]

revraz is right, I never gave you the code to set the cookie. JJohnsonDK gave you a link which you need to read to understand how the cookies work.

 

Also, reference my above post

Then on each respective page' date=' check if the cookie exists, if not, prompt the user if they'd like to accept it and be remembered next time they visit, then set the cookie, else, do nothing.[/quote']

[joebez]

Uhh all these problems because I had a special bytes before the <?php !!!! make sure you have no special bytes before "<?")

 

<? header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
if(isset($_COOKIE['location'])){

 

Thank you drummer101 it works great

[drummer101]

no problem