How to make visitors use their cookies

[heyrad]

Hey all!

I don't want to use my session ID in the url for security reasons and controlablitly. that asside, I would like my page to determine if cookies are enabled or not. If they are, then we're ok, if not, I want to scold them 😉

I could always try to set a cookie, then redirect them back to the page and check for the existance of that cookie, but that seems so redundanct and lacks the elegance that I'm sure a simple javascript could handle.

Any and all help is appreciated

-heyrad

[keith73]

It doesn't matter what you use, you'd still have to do it that way. Javascript can't detect cookies any better than PHP can.

That is the only way, set a cookie, then redirect and check for the cookie.

Pass a parameter to your script, and check for it, that way you know that you already tried to set the cookie. This way, if the cookie didn't set, you won't cause and infinite loop.

• keith