cookie use?

Anon

I have two pages.
lets just call them page1.html
and page2.html

I have no problem changing the pages to php and will at a later point for log storage.

now how would I set a cookie on page1
telling page2 that it's been viewed.
how do I have page2 read the cookie?

the cookie i want is just a flag viewed=1
and expire on browser close.

thanks

Anon

well, I dont think cookies expire on browser close, sessions do. You could either to do what you want.

but to set cookies all you do is (before any scripts)
setcookie ("cookiename", $variable, thetime);
usually, for time I put time()+time();, that's for alot of time, but it goes by seconds so if you want a cookie to expire in five minutes, you'd go:
setcookie ("cookiename", $variable, time()+300);

when the page reloads a variable called $cookiename will be available. On either page one or two.

Sessions work like this: at the beginnign of the page you put
session_start();
and you load your variables:
session_register("viewed"); no $ sign
when you go to page two, you should have a $viewed variable available if you also do a session_start() on top of that page.

Anon

ok so this should work

<?
$defhtml = <<<EOF
<html stuff here>
EOF;

$scookie = setcookie ("Viewed", "yes", 0);

print $scookie;
print $defhtml;
?>

now on page 2:

<?
$defhtml = <<<EOF
<html stuff here>
EOF;

if (viewed == "yes")
print $defhtml;
else header(location:page1.html);