Setting/Retrieving cookies....

[Anon]

Excuse my ignorance,

But I'm relatively new to PHP and I was wondering how I can check for a cookie to see if someone's logged in and set a cookie when someone does log in. And also, be able to display different things based on whether or not the user's logged in.

Thanks.

[Anon]

To set cookie : setcookie()
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

To retrieve a cookie value : $_COOKIE["<cookie name>"]

Example :

On one page :

<?
SetCookie("user_logged_in", "1", time() + 3600); // Expires in one hour
// Rest of the code...
?>

On the other page :

<?
$cookie_value = $_COOKIE["user_logged_in"];
// Rest of the code...
?>

NOTE : You must call setcookie() before outputting anything... if you don't care about this, the cookie won't be set because headers are already sent and you cookie won't be set !