[RESOLVED] Remember visited links with cookie?

technovore

I've got a very simple, flat-file, private forum written in PHP for a dozen or so users. I want to be able to keep track of which messages have been read by each user using a cookie, so that visited links will persist regardless of browser settings. Of course I understand that if the cookie is deleted, that info will be lost. It's a low-usage forum so the total number of messages is low. I'm quite new to PHP so I need as much guidance as possible. Thanks!

sidsel

Every thread in your forum must have some sort of unique id, number etc.
Can't you just save this info a cookie using setcookie?

technovore

sidsel wrote:
Every thread in your forum must have some sort of unique id, number etc.
Can't you just save this info a cookie using setcookie?

Each message is saved to a text file, named with a unique number, so that seems like the correct solution. The setcookie part is clear to me, but I'm not sure how to record which links the user has clicked (and how to set the links to appear "visited" when the info is read back from the cookie.) Any specific guidance or examples would be very much appreciated.