handling array values in cookies

Anon

Hi
I am having a problem of stroing array values in cookies.This is my problem.
In the home page there will be one poll and also a link to more polls.I want to restrict the user to vote the poll for the second time using cookies.For that I created one cookie and set one value fot that.It is working fine for one poll.Whenever the user cliks the more poll link,it will popup a window and display the list of polls with titles and can select any polls for voting.I want to restrict the user to answer any poll listed here only once.While clicking the poll title it will popup a winodw with poll details.After submiting one poll I want to set one cookie value for that.When the user cliks the next poll,can vote that and one cookie value is set.If the user once again tries to vote the first poll(already he voted) i am not able to get the cookie value
which is set for that to check.How to get the cookie value in the parent window which is set in the child window.

Your help will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Anon

Ehh.. yadda yadda yadda poll.. yadda yadda yadda cookie.. Hmm...

I'm sorry I don't quite understand your problem.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you want to show a list of polls but exclude the ones the visitor already voted to ?

I'd say set a cookie if the poll is used:

$array_cookie[$poll_id] = setcookie();

And when displaying the list of available polls:

if ( !$array_cookie[$poll_id] ) {
[this cookie is not set]
} else {
[this cookie is set]
}

$poll_id is the id from the database row containing poll information. So you step through your available polls with while (and mysql_fetch_array).

Anon

Many thanks.I will explain the exact problem.
If the user selects a poll from the list it will pop the window to answer.To answer for the next poll the user has to select from the same list.In this point, i am not once again query the poll details from the database(by filtering with answered one).Simply i want to restrict the user from entering once again for the same poll.
According to your method,is it possible to retrieve (or get) the cookie value in the parent window(where all poll lists are displayed) which is set in the child window where the user answers.I hope this will give some idea about my problem.I may be wrong in my approach.Please explain in detail.

Many Thanks
Srini.