SetCookie coding help needed

[acctman]

I need help with a setcookie code that will redirect a user or stop a user from accessing a page. I need help with set 3 and 4. I'm aware that this is not full proof (user can delete the cookies, user a different browser, turn cookies off, etc) but its a good deterrent that will stop most users.

 

 

1. User Logs in (login.php)

2. Check BanUser table if user exist redirect to Suspend

3. on Suspend page SetCookie to prevent the user from signing up again

4. User goes to reg.php page and the cookie redirects to Suspend

[uniflare]

put this code if banned_user is found, make sure its before any browser output or you will get errors:

 

setcookie("cookiename","banned",time()+99999999);

 

 

then on ever page that needs to check a banned user use this:

 

if(isset($_COOKIE['cookiename'])){
  if($_COOKIE['cookiename'] == "banned"){
    //redirect to suspended.php
  exit();
  }
}

 

hope this helps,

[acctman]

i can use something like this for the redirect right

 

header('Location: http://www.site.com/suspended.php');

[PHP Monkeh]

As long as nothing has been output to the browser before hand, of course!

[uniflare]

remember to use exit(); after a header("location: ..."); call to stop script processing, (even though the client is redirected the script continues processing).