[RESOLVED] if this, then -- based on cookies

[DrSam]

forgive me if this type of question has been posted somewhere else. I searched and couldn't find it.

My question is a cookie one. How would I do the following:

[FONT="Courier New"]If the following cookies exist: ARyes1 and ARyes2
then print:
<script language="javascript">CODE HERE</script>

If no cookie, then print:
<p>blah</p>[/FONT]

.... thank you very much in advance! =)

[bradgrafelman]

Use [man]isset/man to check if the appropriate indexes are set in the $_COOKIE array.

[DrSam]

Thank you for the quick reply - but, I'm still lost - sorry =(

How would I write the entire code?

(sorry for my ignorance...)

[NogDog]

Basic logic would be:

if(isset($_COOKIE['cookie_name']))
{
   echo "cookie stuff here";
}
else
{
   echo "missing cookie stuff here";
}

[bradgrafelman]

And if you're wanting to make sure both cookies are set, you can either use AND boolean logic to combine two different isset() statements in the if() condition, or you could take advantage of this fact about [man]isset/man:

If multiple parameters are supplied then isset() will return TRUE only if all of the parameters are set.

[DrSam]

Okay, so far so good. But, as I tried to implement the code with the Javascript. I got the following error:

[FONT="Courier New"]Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'[/FONT]

This is the code I used ...

<script language="javascript">
var exitsplashalertmessage = '***************************************\n\n         > > > W A I T < < <\n\n    Click the ***CANCEL*** button\n      on the NEXT window & get \n    access to something for FREE!...\n\n***************************************';
var exitsplashmessage = '******************************************\n\n   W A I T   B E F O R E   Y O U   G O !\n\n   Click the *CANCEL* button right now.\n\nIve got something to give you, its FREE!...\n\n   --- Do NOT click the "OK" button. ---\n\n******************************************';
var exitsplashpage = 'http://www.hflsolutions.com/health_scams/weight_loss/fatburninghormones.shtml';
</script>

[bradgrafelman]

The code you posted is Javascript, which has nothing to do with PHP (which is where your error message is coming from). Post the PHP code around that section of data.

Based on the error message, I'm going to guess you tried to throw the above HTML/Javascript code in the middle of a PHP script? If so, you can't do that and expect PHP to know what to do with it; either echo() out the data, or escape out of PHP mode... e.g.:

<?php

if($foo) { ?>
  <!-- HTML here! -->
<?php
} else { ?>
   <!-- more HTML here! -->
<?php
}

[DrSam]

wow, perfect... awesome. Thank you soooooo much!!! I really appreciate everyone's help. Thanks again!

[DrSam]

Sorry... one last question and I was confused with the "boolean logic" stated previously.

How do I check for 2 different cookies? Basically, I want to check if either CookieA or CookieB is present, THEN show ____

I'm currently using:

if(isset($_COOKIE['NewsletterA']))

How do I check for NewsletterA or NewsletterB as cookies?

Thanks again...

[bradgrafelman]

DrSam wrote:

I want to check if either CookieA or CookieB is present

Oh? That's different than what you originally said:

DrSam wrote:

If the following cookies exist: ARyes1 and ARyes2

(emphasis added). So which is it.. AND or OR? 🙂

Either way, you'd use a simple logical operator (see: [man]operators.logical[/man]) to combine two different isset() statements together (using whichever type of logic you answered above).

[DrSam]

yes, you are correct - I made a mistake. It should have been or/either - not "and". Thank again for the quick reply and the link!