How do you check if cookies are enabled?

Cam_Turn

I'm pretty sure that you've got to have some JavaScript to do it:

cookiesEnabled.php

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- // For browsers that don't have JavaScript support

// Total noscript
// --><h1>Get yourself a new browser to view our site</h1><!--

location.href = "<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?cookiesEnabled=" + navigator.cookiesEnabled() + "&amp;#";
// All on one line though

</script>
<noscript><h1>Please enable JavaScript</h1></noscript>

nemonoman

One approach is to have a small cookie checkpage, which then would fork to one of 2 pages: cookiesOK.php and cookiesNOT.php

cookiecheck.html page is something like this (whole page🙂

<html>
<script>
document.cookie='name=value';
if(document.cookie){
window.location=cookiesOK.php;
}
else{
window.location=cookiesNOT.php;
}
</script>
</html>

PS. This script won't work on Mac Safari, which now has 00.72% of the browser market, but it works on the other 99.28%.

Cam_Turn

Thankyou for that, I'm new to this board if you'd like to know! 😃

planetsim

You really shouldnt trust javascript, if javascript has been turned off or javascript is not enabled in the browser then nothing is going to happen.

bambino

<?
if($_SESSION['JSexe']){		//3rd check js
	if($_COOKIE['JS'])	setcookie('JS','JS',time()-1);//check on every page load
	else			header('Location: js.html');
}				//2nd so far it's been server-side scripting. Client-side scripting must be executed once to set second cookie.
				//Without JSexe, user with cookies and js enabled would be sent straight to js.html on first page load.
elseif($_COOKIE['PHP'])		$_SESSION['JSexe'] = true;
else{				//1st check cookies
	if($_GET['cookie'])	header('Location: cookies.html');
	else{
				setcookie('PHP','PHP');
				header('Location: '.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'?cookie=1');
	}
}
?>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">document.cookie = 'JS=JS'</script>
</head>

I realize this thread is quite old but I wanted to share my script and also see if there is anyone out there with other solutions. It uses PHP, javascript and cookies, and it checks whether cookies and js are enabled or not.

Not sure why the lines are not getting aligned on here, it's more readable and explained on here http://asdlog.com/Check_if_cookies_and_javascript_are_enabled