[Resolved] Is it possible to...

[Rodney_H_]

Is it possible to... Create a cookie AND to use the header redirect command on one page? For example:

<?php
setcookie ("visited", "true", time(), "/"); /* Create Cookie! */

header("Location: index.php"); /* Redirect browser */

exit; /* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
?>

The reason why I ask is because I read in the FAQs that BOTH header redirects and Cookie functions have to be the first thing exectuted on a page.

So, if they can both be done, should the cookies function go first? Or can't they be done together like this?

Thanks.

-Rodney H.

[halojoy]

Hello
Rodney H, old chap ...

Is it possible to... Create a cookie AND to use the header redirect command on one page?

Your example.
When you run it.
What happens??
Should give you an answer, if it is possible

Trial and error, this is how I get most of my answers
🆒

[drew010]

It should work fine, all setcookie() and header() do is sent extra http response headers to the client, one being in the form of
Cookie: name=value; expired=DATE; path=/; domain=.yoursite.com
and
Location: index.php

The first tells the browser to save a cookie, and the next says for them to make a new get request to index.php and go there.

Its no problem using both.

[Rodney_H_]

Halojoy & Drew: THANKS!

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Halojoy:

"god dag hur stå det till?" It is good to see you.

Trial and error, huh? You give good advice. That is just what I will do.

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Drew:

Thanks for the insights. I will give it a shot. Thanks for the PHP scripts from your site. I downloaded the RSS script.

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-Rodney H.

[halojoy]

Originally posted by Rodney H.
Halojoy & Drew: THANKS!
Halojoy:
"Goddag Hur står det till?" It is good to see you.
Trial and error, huh? You give good advice. That is just what I will do.
-Rodney H.

rodney,
didnt know you speak swedish! 🙂
I could do better than trial & error advice
but you know how it is, sometimes you know too little
or have too little time or patience to give a better tip

but swedish, english and german I know a bit about.
Goddag. Hur står det till? // is a very formal phrase, a bit stiff
Godday. How standing it is?

Normal everyday spoken version:
Hejsan! Hur har du det?
Hello! How have you it?
(or
Hej! Hur mår du?
Hello! How are you?)

[Rodney_H_]

I really don't know Swedish. Just a few words.

I know a little German. I studied art in Austria when I wore a younger man's clothes.

The advice worked fine. It forced me to THINK about it.

Yes. it works.

I just had to swap the order.

(I had the redirect first and then cookie second. NOW, I have the cookie statement first followed by the redirect. It works swimmingly!)

Thanks again, my friend.

-Rodney H.