A couple questions....

Anon

#1: How do I set this script so that you can earn up to 100 credits per day and it will save and let you start earning credits again at midnight the next day and at the end of the month send me an email with who has the most credits (the script will be for secret stuff on the site/monthly contest)? This is REALLY confusing me.:

<?

session_start();

if(!isset($credits)) {

$counter = 0;

session_register('credits');

}

$counter++;

print "Name: $username Credits: $credits";

?>

#2: Same script, how do I set a cookie or something so that when somebody logs in it will save their name and it will load in the $username place?

If somebody can help me with any of this it will really be appreciated. Thank you.

Anon

Well first off you don't want to use sessions for this, as sessions are only temparary cookies and are deleted from the users system right after they close their browser, instead use the normal cookie function...

Examples:
setcookie ("TestCookie", "Test Value");
setcookie ("TestCookie", $value,time()+3600); / expire in 1 hour /
setcookie ("TestCookie", $value,time()+3600, "/~rasmus/", ".utoronto.ca", 1);

What this'll do is put a cookie on the users system and then everytime they visit your site php will create a variable with the same name as the cookie, so in this example it woudl make a variable by the name of $TestCookie containing the value "Test Value". Thou of course you should set the expiry date to something a little longer, like say a week or a month or something, and then when ever the user visits the site you just run this command again and it will re-initialize the expiry date so that it won't go disapearing on you. Oh thou if your doing something involving prizes I would only store the users handle and password and not the value of the credits, I'd store the credits in a secure database. Users are very untrustworthy when it comes to free stuff <G>

Anon

I read that about 6 times over and over and I still don't understand it. Sorry but I am very new to php, cookies, and all that stuff. Could you reexplain that and maybe tell me what each part of that cookie does so I know how to mess with it and make it how I want it.