Cookies help

[leafypiggy]

Hey, I was wondering how I could set a cookie that redirects a visitor to a homepage after they visit a intro page. Is there a way to do this?

 

[shinyPlastics]

Well you could always do something such as using to verify the cookie via PHP or Javascript and then have it setup a redirect via <meta> or if you are using flash there are actionscripts to take care of that action. If you can tell me which approach you are planning to take.

 

[leafypiggy]

probably a cookie with PHP or Javascript.

 

[shinyPlastics]

Well, the thing to do if it's just a simple HTML/PHP page as the intro just make a redirect after so many seconds via <meta>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://url" />

With 10 being how many seconds to wait.....

if you did something like

if( $_COOKIE['cookiename'] ) {
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://url" />';
}

 

[MasterMax1313]

if( $_COOKIE['cookiename'] ) {
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://url" />';
}

instead of the <meta ... /> you can use the following php code as long as you have not echoed or printed anything

header("location:some_url.php");

 

[leafypiggy]

um. I am just trying to store a cookie that tells my webpage that they have viewed the intro, and to send the reader to my main page. any way to do that? I am a noob at cookies. all i know is that they are yummy....lol

 

[leafypiggy]

sry for double post, but I still need help on this issue.

 

[-fedexer-]

I am no expert but you could go with something along the lines of:

# = the page you get redirected to if you have seen the intro already

if(isset($_COOKIE['COOKIENAME'])){
header("Location: ./#.php");
}else{
setcookie("COOKIENAME", TRUE, time()+7200);
header("Location: ./#.php");
}

Note i use time()+7200 as an example, this would mean the cookie would expirse after 2hrs, you could increase this to days/weeks/months.

Not sure if this is what you were wanting or not, but i figured i would give some input.

 

[MasterMax1313]

on your intro page

<?
	if(!empty($_COOKIE['visit']))
		header('location:somesite.php');
	$cookie_result = setcookie("visit", true, time() + 3600);
	if(!$cookie_result)
		$message = "Please enable cookies within your browser";
	else
		header('location:index.php');
?>

the timeout (time() + 3600) set to timeout after an hour, so you could set it to timeout several years later. this also checks to see if the browser supports cookies.

 

[preetham]

Your landing page would be the intro page i guess.
If this is the case.. when the user visits the site for the first time set the cookie as follows... in the introduction page

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['cookie_name'])){
header('Location: http://www.example.com/mainpage.php');
}
else{
setcookie("cookie_name", true, time()+86400);
header('Location: http://www.example.com/mainpage.php');
}
?>

this will make sure that the user will not see the introduction page for one day. You can increase/reduce the time as how long a user will not see the introduction page.

As cookies can/may be disabled by the users, you can use sessions to have the same effect.

Put this code in the introduction page.
<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['visited_intro'])){
header('Location: http://www.example.com/mainpage.php');
}
else{
$_SESSION['visited_intro'] = 'true';
header('Location: http://www.example.com/mainpage.php');
}
?>

Note: Here the user will not see the introduction page till the session lasts.

 

[leafypiggy]

solved already, just got the chance to post this. I used javascript. thnx tho.

LOCKED

 

[marshian]

sorry to bother you again, but the user can disable javascript too, in my opinion it's better to use php

 

[leafypiggy]

....dont care..they can just see the intro, and send me a friggin email if they want to know why they keep seeing it....