Re: Multiple URLs and cookies

You can't do setcookie and Location: in the same page. Once they picked a language, set the cookie and return the HTML content for that home page, don't redirect. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Gillies <jgillies@cupw-sttp.org> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: [PHP] Multiple URLs and cookies > Hello all! > > Okay, still going at it with PHP vs. JavaScript -- although one can remove > the power if they disable cookies -- in fact, with the way it is set up > here, it is doubtful they will get to the right page if they switch > languages, but i can work that out later with a simple if-then statement > that will create the link -- a test to see if cookies are enabled then print > the correct URL. > > 1) Joe: I used the index (splash.php) and choice pages (choice.php) as per > your suggestion. It works without a hitch. The cookie is set and it goes > accordingly from the splash.php page once you have mad a selection. > > 2) Angela: I have added a third page to this mix, a lang_swap.php which is > called from the document that people are looking at. So now it goes from a > language button on a doc, passes a document id to the lang_swap.php page > where a similar process tot he choice.php page takes place, sets the cookie > value to the other language, and kicks it back to the french version of the > english document (and vice-versa). It's all pretty quick, so i'm not worried > about the page requests and lag. > > > The trouble is... the lang_swap.php will not set the cookie for the language > change. If i swap to french and then i go back and load the splash page, it > send me to the english-front again, but it should send me to the > french-front... i was having this problem before when i was trying to get > this all to work... once the variable was set, i could not get it to change. > > Thanks for your help and in advance of some more! > Jer > Canadian Union of Postal Workers > > > ------------------------------ > The splash.php is as follows: > ------------------------------ > <?php > if ((IsSet($lang)) || ($lang = "1") || ($lang = "2")) > switch($lang) > { > case 1: > header("Location: > http://www.english.com/english-front-page.php"); > exit; > break; > case 2: > header("Location: > http://www.franch.com/french-front-page.php"); > exit; > break; > } > ?> > <HTML> > ..... > passes a value to choice.php... depending upon langauge select... > ..... > </HTML> > > ------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------ > The choice.php is as follows: > ------------------------------ > > <?PHP > > if(strlen($lang)) > { > switch($lang) > { > case 1: > setcookie ("lang", "1", > "http://www.english.com/", "", 0); > header("Location: > http://www.english.com/english-front-page.php"); > exit; > break; > case 2: > setcookie ("lang", "2", > "http://www.french.com/", "", 0); > header("Location: > http://www.franch.com/french-front-page.php"); > exit; > break; > } > } > ?> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Choice</title> > </head> > <body></body> > </html> > > > ------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------ > The lang_swap.php is as follows: > ----------------------------- > > <?PHP > if ((IsSet($lang)) || ($lang = "1") || ($lang = "2")) > switch($lang) > { > /* here is the swap */ > case 1: > setcookie ("lang", "2", > "http://www.french.com/", "", 0); > header("Location: > http://www.french.com/document-fra.php?Doc_ID=$Ident"); > exit; > break; > case 2: > setcookie ("lang", "1", > "http://www.english.com/", "", 0); > header("Location: > http://www.english.com/document-eng.php?Doc_ID=$Ident"); > exit; > break; > } > ?> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Lang Swap</title> > </head> > <body></body> > </html> > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >