Re: How to tell if client has cookies turned off?

you can check the HTTP_COOKIE_VARS array after setting a cookie to see if anything is placed in there. Rick At 08:52 AM 3/6/01 -0800, Chris Adams wrote:

On 6 Mar 2001 07:53:46 -0800, kevin1 <kevin1@outcomemail.com> wrote: How can I tell reliably if someone has cookies turned off? Set a cookie on your site (perhaps the homepage?) and use code like this:

        if (!empty($UserHasCookies)) {
                echo 'Whew - you do have cookies';
        }

The idea is to set your code to assume that cookie support is disabled unless it finds a cookie saying otherwise. That way it'll fail safely if someone either doesn't have a cookie or their browser discards the cookie halfway through. This may seem silly, but some people get *really* paranoid about cookies. Combined with the increasingly good cookie management in modern browsers and just about anything is possible - this is in fact the major shortcoming to code like the above - it's possible for someone to accept one cookie and deny another, so just being able to set a cookie once does not mean that you will be able to set another. Chris -- 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

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