How to load Cookies into Session?

asolell

I want to start a session based on a GetCookie() content.
How do I do that?

Once the 'headers' are loaded, I can't start a session (at least that's the error I get).

Thanks,

-Alon.

[deleted]

Start a session based on cookie content?
What's the point?

Anyway, the error you get is from starting a session after printing something (can be a header, can be ascii, can be html) you can work around that using output buffering, but first tell me why you'd want to use cookie-data to start a session?

A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?

Time to YAPF!: http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/

asolell

In my website, I show cars. Each car has multiple pictures.
I want to build a 'true' counter of hits per car.
If a user clicks on any of the car's pics, it registers only one hit
on the server.

To maintain the no repeat hits, I want to place a cookie on the user's
machine and have it checked to see if it holds the specific car's ID.
It doesn't matter which Picture of that car the user clicks on.

I'm not sure what mechanism to use to make this happen:

I thought I'd have a session started at the index.php file
and load a cookie from the user's computer (if exists) into the session. Then, in the session, I'd have all the previous cars
that were visited before, and increment or not based on the CarID.

However, I'm not sure how to implement a GetCookie Into a Session.
Having the GetCookie loaded into the session, will remove the need
to do a getCookie again for each car (unless the CarID is not registered in the cookie, and at that time it will also do a SetCookie).
The cookie content will be parsed on the server.

Anon

Start the Session First thing right when the person enters your site

<?
session_start();
?>

then make an array and store it in the session for $visited_ids = array();

If you have a Nissan Xterra:

when the visitor goes to the xterra start the session on the Xterra Page, and then

array_push($visited_ids, Xterra);
session_register("visited_ids");

go to Next Picture: Ford Contour

on that page:
<?
session_start();
array_push($visited_ids, contour);
session_register("visted_ids");
?>

every car, do this, and keep the track right.

and then you can tell how many cars the visitor saw. And: if they see the same car twice, just make sure you're able to remove duplicate entries from the stored array.

Craig