how do i know if 1st visit?

[Anon]

My main page has an include for a counter.
It is set that if the variable "beenhere" is set to "yes" the counter will not count. How am I supposed to make the counter set a cookie when there is already output?? Isn't that impossible? I know there is a way to know if it is the person's first visit but I forgot it.

[[deleted]]

there are two things you can do: the first thing is logging the ip-adress in the db and every time this page is called you can compare if this ip-adress is in the db or not. if it is you won't count. otherwise you can use your counter ...

the second choise is, like you said, setting a cookie. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php)

and then after setting the cookie you can look if the cookie with its special content is set or not. e.g name the cookie count and thge value true. then:

if($count == "true") {
//count
}else{

//don't
}

maybe you got a idea

ali

[Anon]

how do you log the IP address? i heard about that but have NO idea how to do that

[[deleted]]

for example writing it into a table in your database. You can get the ip-adress with the global var $REMOTE_ADDR. (php version prior 4.1.0).

ali