Re: Yet another cookie question

In article <4.3.1.0.20000614111750.026c03a8@mail.hyro.com>, scott.hutchens@hyro.com (Scott Hutchens) wrote: > Is there a way for php to ask the browser if it has cookies enabled? If so, > how? Not directly. However, you could have this at the top of every file, and on the *SECOND* page they visit, you'll know: <?php if ($CookiesOn){ echo "Cookies are on.<BR>"; } else{ SetCookie("CookiesOn", 1); echo "If this is the second page you've visited, your cookies are off.<BR>\n": } ?> This is a limitation of how HTTP works, basically... The fact that their cookies my be on/off is not transmitted until you fail to get the cookie you set, because, for one thing, they may be deciding on a site-by-site basis, or even a cookie-by-cookie basis to accept cookies. You can't find out how they'll answer until they answer, which is after you send the page. Even then, I guess a user could accept your first cookie, but not the others, so you wouldn't be sure they were accepting *ALL* your cookies... But that would be pretty weird behaviour by a user, especially since you should only be sending them one (1) cookie, and storing all the other data for them in your server-side storage, preferably a database. Bummer. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)