Global Cookie?

ppg3412

Hey there, i was wondering if someone could help me out with what im doing.
Im trying to make it so that whenever someone new comes to ANY of the pages in my site, it the url refreshes to a "first time here" page. But when the user comes back to any of the pages, it just normally follows the url, and doesn't go to the first time page again.

Here's the code im using (and putting on every single page in my website.):

<?php
if(!isset($PageViewed))
{
header ("Location: http://tpi.ppgworld.com/entrance.php3");
setcookie ("PageViewed", "TRUE");
exit;
} else {}
?>

What it seems to be doing though, is working seperatly for every single page, like if i were to go to one page that I have already been to, it would work. But it would do the whole 'first time' page allover again.

Is there a way I could set the cookie to make it global, and not execute the script for every single page, but rather only once from any of the pages.

Thanks!
-Andrew

Anon

I agree with Patrick. While its very possible in Javascript, it is also possible to solve your problem in PHP, the most important thing is that you will need to set the expiration date for more than the current session. In other words, your current code only sets the expiration date to last until the user's session is alive, once they close the browser its gone and you'll have to start from scratch.

The code you are using is right, its just you will need to set the expiration date a little longer (say 15 days etc)

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But javascript can be disabled from the client,breaking you function.

Including it on every page is not a problem. Most of the php projects use a library-structure that needs to be included at the top of every page anyway.

And, Javascript doesn't kick in untill it has been loaded into the browser, where a PHP include will activate before the page is actually loaded, saving time and making things look nicer :-)