Re: PHP and cookies and/or headers
| From: | Angela | Date: | Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:23:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP and cookies and/or headers | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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After reading through the setcookie page on php.net, I found out that for some reason it
won't let you redirect to a different site after setting the cookie. So, as a fix, change
the headers on the setcookie.php page to redirect to the index page, and let the index
page take care of the redirecting.
-Angela
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: PHP and cookies and/or headers
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:57:23 -0500
From: Angela <angela@localnetamerica.com>
To: Jeremy Gillies <jgillies@cupw-sttp.org>,php-general@lists.php.net
On your splash page, instead of having it send the user directly to either the english or
french site, first have it send to another page on that domain along with a variable to
tell it whether it's english or french. For example, the English button would be linked
to "setcookie.php?Language=English" and the French button would be linked to
"setcookie.php?Language=Francais". On the setcookie.php page, use an if statement to
determine which language they chose, then inside of it set the cookie then redirect them
to the language site of their choice. For example:
<?
if($Language=="English"){
setcookie("Language", "$Language");
header("location: http://www.english.com");
}else{
setcookie("Language", "$Language");
header("location: http://www.francais.com");
}
?>
Then on your home page, you would have it check for these cookies:
<?
if($Language=="English"){
header("location: http://www.english.com");
}elseif($Language=="Francais"){
header("location: http://www.francais.com");
}else{
show_the_choice_page();
}
?>
I think this would be the best solution. Let me know if anybody comes up with anything
better.
-Angela
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Angela Curtis
Internet Programmer
Innovative Business Consultants
http://www.ibc2001.com