Browser &amp; Cookies

Browser & Cookies

Anon

Haw can I tell if the browser supports cookies ? I need true or false.

Anon

most of the browsers people are using now support cookies.

a silly but working method to see if the user allows cookie on his browser is that

i just set up a test cookie, and then check to see if this cookie is there, if it is return true, else return false.

Anon

I want to use this for a counter, 'unique visitor(s) in the last 24 hours'. The counter works with IP adress & cookies. There are people out there that block all cookies.
This doesn't work :
<?php
function list_array ($array) {
while (list ($key, $value) = each ($array)) {
$str .= "$key: $value \n";
}
return $str;
}
echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT<hr />\n";
$browser = get_browser();
echo list_array ((array) $browser);
?>

The output of the above script would look something like this:

Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.9 i586)<hr />
browser_name_pattern: Mozilla/4.5.* 
parent: Netscape 4.0 
platform: Unknown 
majorver: 4 
minorver: 5 
browser: Netscape 
version: 4 
frames: 1 
tables: 1 
cookies: 1 
backgroundsounds: 
vbscript: 
javascript: 1 
javaapplets: 1 
activexcontrols: 
beta: 
crawler: 
authenticodeupdate: 
msn:

Anon

I do not think you can check the support for frames, tables, cookies, client scritps and so on, I guess help's has a solution.

Right, cookies is optinal for the user, so is client scripts (.js, .vbs) don't rely fully on using cookies.

If you want to check for support for HTML technologies like frames and tables, this is my solution:

Do a Check for which browser and OS the user has.
Find out what browser that support the technologies. (se: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/browser_chart/)

And do a comparison.

best regards,
Thomas