note 35911 added to function.setcookie
| From: | brett at brettbrewer dot com | Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:26:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 35911 added to function.setcookie | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
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How to check to see if browser cookies are enabled:
Apparently similar functionality is available in phpsniff on sourceforge, but the author didn't
bother documenting that project, so I had no way of knowing how it worked. I decided to write a
routine using sessions.
We use sessions here for simplicity. Basically, we just want to set a cookie, then reload the page
to see if it was set and if so, set a variable flag and delete the cookie.
<?php
session_start();
if( !$_SESSION['cookietest']['reload'] ||
$_SESSION['cookietest']['reload']=="yes" ){
setcookie("cookietest",'yes',0,'/','',0);
$_SESSION['cookietest']['reload']="no";
header("Location: $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]");
exit;
}else{
$cookies_on=$_COOKIE['cookietest'];
setcookie("cookietest",'',time()-3600,'/','',0);
$_SESSION['cookietest']['reload']="yes";
}
echo "Cookies On: $cookies_on";
?>
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