basic cookie question

weazy

i am trying to use a cookie in a conditional but the IF statment seems to be executed every time regardless of whether its true or not. also, this script is spse to work for visitors that have left the site and are coming back ....

<html>
<?
if ($progenic_popu = '1')
{

echo '<head><title>site.title</title>';
echo '<META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://www.site.org/phpbb/index.php">';
echo '</head>';

} else {

$expire_progenic = time()+864000;
setcookie('progenic_popu', '1', $expire_progenic);

echo '<head><title>site.org</title></head>';
echo '<body>Created Cookied Called progenic_popup</body>';

}

</html>

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

shawon22

try using "==" instead of just one

if ($progenic_popu == '1')
{

weazy

now i get:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/scripts/cookie.php:3) in /public_html/scripts/cookie.php on line 14

line 14:

setcookie('progenic_popu', '1', $expire_progenic);

shouldnt this be very easy ?

ereptur

You can't set cookies, send header() statements, or manipulate sessions if you have already sent anything to the browser. You MUST change your code to something like this. This is not anything wrong with PHP, every language is like that since it is a specification with the HTTP protocol.

<? 
if ($progenic_popu = '1') 
{ 
echo '<html>';
echo '<head><title>site.title</title>'; 
echo '<META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://www.site.org/phpbb/index.php">'; 
echo '</head>'; 

} else { 

$expire_progenic = time()+864000; 
setcookie('progenic_popu', '1', $expire_progenic); 

echo '<html>';
echo '<head><title>site.org</title></head>'; 
echo '<body>Created Cookied Called progenic_popup</body>'; 

} 

?> 

</html>

stick_figure

Of course, you should evaluate $progenic_popu with ==, not =.