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. It's kind of hard to follow that without seeing your actual code. Are you doing print_r on the second page? ---John Holmes... > 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... > >