Re: Cookies detect and $_SESSION

Hi John, That makes sense. I guess it's brain-bloat. I've never bothered using $_COOKIE simply because I thought I wasn't using them. So I'll give that a try. But getting back to my earlier question, when I switch off cookies in Opera or Konqueror browser, and print_r($_SESSION); the result is Array(). Now, that's telling me that the 'yes' was not passed to the $_SESSION. How come I cannot set a condition of 'null' or "" to determine/use this condition? I've tried switch, and if. They don't detectt it. Why? I've added some comments below as well. Regards, Andre On Monday 05 August 2002 07:38 pm, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote: > You don't say _how_ it "doesn't work" but I assume it always tells you the > "cookie" was set. Correct. > > You're not setting any cookie values at all. Look at what you're actually > doing: > > $_SESSION['cookie'] = "yes"; > if($_SESSION['cookie'] == "yes") > > Umm..that's _always_ going to be true. Not always. If $_SESSION['cookie'] does not get 'passed' to $_SESSION (which it doesn't when I view it wih print_r($_SESSION);). > > If you want to set a cookie value, you got to have a page refresh. Cookies > are not set until the next page is requested... So, you could have > something like this: > > //set cookie > $_COOKIE['test'] = "test"; > //redirect to new page > header("Location: > http://www.example.com/index2.php"); > > Then, on index2.php > > //see if cookie is not set > if(!isset($_COOKIE['test'])) > { echo "Cookies must be enabled!"; } > > Hope that helps... > > ---John Holmes... >