Convert from ASP to PHP

[Anon]

I have the following ASP lines I need to convert to PHP for my new site:

<%
Dim skin
skin = Request.Cookies("skin")
If skin = "" Then
skin = "default"
End If
%>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/<%=skin%>.css" id="skin" />

I tried:

<?
$skin = Request.Cookies("skin")
If($skin==""){
$skin = "default"
}
?>

Didn't work to well. I'm not great with PHP yet.

I kept getting problems with line:

if($skin = ""){

And so I deleted all the if(){}

Then got a problem with the cookie thing.

I think maybe no Request.Cookies???

Help anyone? Thanks 🙂

[Anon]

Of course it doesn't work. You can't take random bits of VBScript and stick them into PHP and hope that PHP can figure out what you're trying to do.

PHP makes cookie values available as "superglobal" variables. Read the manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.cookies

And read the documentation for the setcookie() function.