redirect or ?

[snowfox]

I am new to PHP and I am not sure how to handle this situation. I have a form that needs to be completed the first time a user enters the site. After they have completed the form and they enter the site again they need to go to the home page.

What type of code would you use for this situation. For example the first time they visit the webpage they complete form.php. Everytime after that they go to firstpage.php. This page contains some information that they entered in the form.

Thanks for any help that you may be able to provide.

[dagon]

could store the fact that they have filled in a form in a cookie\session, but you want a log in\user management system to know for sure.

[DaveRandom]

dagon's answer is the best way to achieve what you suggested, but also not foolproof as either method will result in data being stored that will eventually be deleted during clean-ups.

The standard way to do this is to have a page at the start, with options to "sign up" or "log in" - look a Facebook, eBay etc etc that is the way they all do it.

You can store cookies etc for regualr visitors, so most of the time they will be able to bypass the first screen, e.g. (at the top of the first page)

if (isset($_COOKIE['my-secret-cookie'])) {
  header("HTTP/1.1 302 Found");
  header("Location: http://my.server/firstpage.php");
  exit;
}