Client issue

Anon

how can i determine if someone has visited my site b4 and how can i display the name of that person in the welcome page? (a dummie examle please)

Anon

check if a cookie is set on the client and if a variable "name" or something exists.

if yes, read the value of "name" out of the cookie,
if no, ask for the name and write it to the cookie.

Anon

does it have to be one thing AND the other?, i mean, do i have to check if the cookie is set AND check for the value of it?

Anon

you can check if the variable $name exists. if yes, the cookie exists and holds a value for $name. if no name is set, write the cookie with a name "name" and a value ($name)

Anon

what's wrong with this?

<?php
/if there's a cookie, load page "B" with the info found on it (like username for instance), if not, load page "A" /

if(!isset $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS "CookName"]))
{$arc = "starta.php4";}
else
{$DaName = $CookName;
$arc = "startb.php4?";}

@include($arc);
?>

Anon

you've forgotten an opening [

<?php
if (!isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["CookName"])) {
    $arc = "starta.php4";
} else {
    $daName = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["CookName"];
    $arc = "startb.php4";
}

include ($arc);
?>

hope it will work now

Anon

ok, is this the way of setting them?

setcookie("CookName"); //for cleaning.
setcookie("CookName",$Var); //for setting.