cookies help

[neuflex]

Hello I am just wondering if it's possable to write a varable to an cookie via a normal link, if so how?

What i want to do is when someone clicks a link it saves a colour to cookie so i can use it later in my website. I have an example in this book iam reading atm but it only shows you with form's(which works and i understand 🙂). Ive tryed a few things with no luck 🙁

Thanks in advance 🙂

[ZibingsCoder]

With link code:

<a href='page.php?color=blue'>Make it Blue</a>

page.php includes:

if ( isset($_GET['color']) && !empty($_GET['color'] )
{
   setcookie("color", $_GET['color'], time()+(60*60*24*365), "/", "", 0);
}

if ( isset($_COOKIE['color']) && !empty($_COOKIE['color']) )
{
   $GLOBALS['color'] = $_COOKIE['color'];
}

else if ( isset($_GET['color']) && !empty($_GET['color']) )
{
   $GLOBALS['color'] = $_GET['color'];
}

Basic idea...build on it.