RE: [PHP] how to detect the cookie is disabled or enabled?

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Johnson, Kirk wrote: > > how to use PHP to detect browser's cookie setting (enabled or > > disabled) > > Check if $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'] is set on the second page request. One way to > do this is to do a header() redirect on the first page back to itself. For > example, if index.php is the first page, then something like this: > > if(isset($_GET['redirect')) { > if(isset($_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'])) { > // cookies are enabled > } > else { > // cookies are not enabled > } > } > else { > header('Location: index.php?redirect=true'); > } The above code assumes sessions are enabled, the session.name directive is set to PHPSESSID, session.use_cookies is on in php.ini, and the user accepts session cookies ... not very generic for simply checking cookie support. Instead, you should just set a cookie (setcookie()) and see if it exists on the next page unless you know your session settings test them instead. Basically if a cookie doesn't exist (in future http requests) and you had set one, they don't accept cookies (or at least chose not to accept that specific cookie :). There really isn't any other way. Regards, Philip