sessions/cookies

[Anon]

Hi there,

I need to store a value that a visitor to the web site selects.

For example... "Are you visiting from Canada or the US?"... then I'd like to store:

$wherefrom = "canada";

in a cookie. Each person already has a session_id such as 'e1894cee85029d6be03b16ac7b668683'

How can I get this done...

thanks,

-dr

[Anon]

On the html page where you collect the data, have something like this:

<form action="setcountry.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" size="15" name="wherefrom">
<input type="submit" name="B1" value=" Sumbit Country! ">
</form>

When the user presses the submit button, it will call the php script "setcountry.php" which could look something like this:

<?
setcookie("cookie_country", $wherefrom,);
?>

From here on out, to retrieve the value of $wherefrom you would reference the cookie variable '$cookie_country'

Anyways, just a sloppy example, hopefully you will get the just of it.

[Anon]

Note that the positioning IS important as you can't call any HTML INCLUDING WHITE SPACES before the cookie is set.

Code for "question.php"

<?php
if ($country == "US") {setcookie ('country', 'US');}
elseif ($country == "Canada") {setcookie ('country', 'Canada');}
include ("country_form.inc");
?>

Code for "country_form.inc"

Are you visiting from Canada or the US?
<FORM ACTION="<?php echo($PHP_SELF); ?>" METHOD=POST>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellborder="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="ff05a47">Password</td><td><input type="text" name="country" SIZE="20" maxlength="20"></TD>
</table>
<br>
<input type=submit name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

If you want to use an option menu, I've forgotten them but its fairly easy, just search for "pull down HTML menus" and you should find them.

To then check for the values you just use $country...

ie

<?php
if ($country == "US") {echo "You come from the US!;}
elseif ($country == "Canada") {echo "You come from Canada!;}
?>

Sorry for any bugs, there are normally a few, especially at 1am!

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