How do I make a cookie?

Anon

I'm trying to setup a "themed" website and I figured that the easiest way to do this would be to have cookies....

The cookie would include a few things, such as name, the person's discipline...

How would I go about doing this?

Anon

Use "setcookie()". Beware though that this statement must precede all output to the browser. It's a header function, and you'll get errors if any HTML or PHP output has started to go to the browser.

Then PHP will give you the cookie contents back in a variable of the same name as the cookie's own id. If you want to hold more than one field in there, you'd have to create a string with delimiters and join/explode it.

Anon

hehe..couldn't resist.

---John Holmes...

Anon

While these cookies are certainly less stressful to make, if you do want net cookies I suggest that you have include files.

This is useful because you can set the cookie at once, or, as I do, set it if the username and pw match a db list.

Just set it so that if they match the cookie is set, then put the include file containing the form AFTER this...

ie (yes, this isn't reading from a db)

This does NOT work
<?php
include "login_form.inc"; }
if ($user == "user") {setcookie ();}
include ("connect.inc");
?>

This DOES work
<?php
if ($user == "user") {setcookie ();}
include ("connect.inc");
include "login_form.inc"; }
?>

:-)