With a good start from the folks on this list and a little JavaScript
digging, I found an excellent solution to my problem that I thought I'd share:
Problem: Want to set a cookie then test for it on the same page. I don't
want to to do page redirection to ensure optimal search engine friendlines
Hi Jeff!
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001, Jeff Gannaway wrote:
> OK, I'm working on a site that absolutely must use a cookie containing a
> session identifier.
>
> I know how to set a cookie through PHP, but I need to do something else too.
>
> The same page MUST identifier whether the cookie was accepted
Not to sound overly obvious, but try this.
setcookie("cookieusername","$username",time()+6048000,"/","",0);
$cookieusername = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cookieusername"];
if (!$cookieusername){
echo"Sorry, no cookie, no page.";
die();
}
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Jonathan Campbell ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Mid days haze
On the *2nd* page request you can check for your cookie in
$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. If it is not there, cookies are disabled in the browser.
Here's a kludge to make your "first" page the 2nd page request: just start
your session on index, then META redirect to the next page; this 2nd page is
where you
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