Disable intro movie via php cookies

[ncosper]

I've been messing with this for a couple of days and it just won't quite work correctly. I have to use php otherwise I probably would have this working in javascript.

All I am trying to do is have an intro movie play. Ideally i'd like to have a checkbox that once check sets a cookie that the script checks and determines if the user has disabled the movie.
Right now I think I'm close however anytime I access this page it sets the cookie regardless of whether I click the submit button.

Any idea of where I am going wrong?

Thanks!

<?php ob_start(); ?>
<?php

$disableintro = $_COOKIE[disableintro];
if (@$disableintro != "yes") { 
echo '<div id="OverWebVideo" style="position: fixed; bottom: 0px;"><object height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="moviename.swf" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="transparent" name="wmode" />
<param value="false" name="menu" />                  <embed height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" menu="false" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="moviename.swf"></embed>       </object> <br> <form method="POST" action="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" /><br />
</form> </div>';}

?>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    setcookie('disableintro', 'yes', time()+60*10);
}
?>

[Jack_McSlay]

I would fix this as

<?php ob_start(); 

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    setcookie('disableintro', 'yes', time()+60*10);
    $disableintro = 'yes';
}
else $disableintro = @$_COOKIE[disableintro];

if ($disableintro != "yes") { 
echo '<div id="OverWebVideo" style="position: fixed; bottom: 0px;"><object height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="moviename.swf" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="transparent" name="wmode" />
<param value="false" name="menu" />                  <embed height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" menu="false" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="moviename.swf"></embed>       </object> <br> <form method="POST" action="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" /><br />
</form> </div>';}

?>

[ncosper]

Thats great Jack, I really appreciate it!
I knew I wasn't too far off, I just couldn't get it all to work quite right.

Is there a way to have a check box instead of the submit button, as soon as the check box is checked everything would run just like it does when submit is clicked?

Thanks again

[Jack_McSlay]

yes. just switch the type of the input tag to "checkbox" and add a property onchange="document.forms[0].submit()"

[ncosper]

Hmm. that didn't seem to work. When I do check the box it doesn't do anything. I changed the code as follows.

<?php ob_start();

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    setcookie('disableintro', 'yes', time()+60*60*24*30);
    $disableintro = 'yes';
}
else $disableintro = @$_COOKIE[disableintro];

if ($disableintro != "yes") {
echo '<div id="OverWebVideo" style="position: fixed; bottom: 0px;"><object height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="NickCosper.swf" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="transparent" name="wmode" />
<param value="false" name="menu" />                  <embed height="360" width="480" align="absmiddle" menu="false" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="NickCosper.swf"></embed>       </object><table width="100%" border="0">
  <tr>
    <th scope="col"><form method="POST" action="">
<input type="checkbox" onchange="document.forms[0].submit()" name="submit" value="Disable Intro"  /><br />
</form></th>
  </tr>
</table>  </div>';}

?> 

[Jack_McSlay]

that's odd. tested it now and on Microsoft's lame excuse for a browser you need to click somewhere outside the checkbox to activate the onchange property.

so instead of onchange, use onclick="document.forms[0].submit()" onkeyup="document.forms[0].submit()"

[ncosper]

You're awesome Jack!
Thanks a lot for your help!