Sessions over multiple visits

[Anon]

Is it possible to use a session to save a users name and preferences between visits? I know this requires the cookie part of sessions but they are much easier to use than the Header() interface for cookies.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Anon]

Easy. Set a cookie with the values you want to keep.

$fav_color="red";
$telljokes=true;

setcookie("color", $fav_color);
setcookie("telljokes", $telljokes);

Put these at the VERY TOP of the page you want to imprint the cookies with. The cookies WON'T TAKE EFFECT until the next page hit, so you might want to "buffer" the page, something like this:

if (isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS(fav_color))
{ $fav_color=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS(fav_color); }
else {$fav_color=$fav_color_input};

Hope this helps!

-Ben