RE: [PHP] Setting cookie on first visit

When the user first visits your site, there is no skin in your cookie. Then you can give a default value. And after the user modifies his/her profile, you can set it to the cookie. So I don't think it is a problem of setting cookie. Best regards, Yang Shiqi -Original Message-

Re: [PHP] Setting cookie on first visit

The manual detail this issue: http://ca.php.net/setcookie You can't see the cookie until you hit the next page. There is no way view the newly set cookie. Dan Tappin On Mar 2, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Tom Whitbread wrote: I am using a cookie to detect what skin a user wants to display. The problem is

Re: [PHP] Setting cookie on first visit

Tom Whitbread wrote: I am using a cookie to detect what skin a user wants to display. The problem is if a user visits the site for the first time the cookie is not being set. I am detecting if its being set or not with if(!isset($_COOKIE['skin'])){ ... } It's not setting the cookie untill a

Re: [PHP] Setting cookie on first visit

Why not use sessions instead? us2.php.net/session On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:42:02 -0800 (PST), Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Whitbread wrote: I am using a cookie to detect what skin a user wants to display. The problem is if a user visits the site for the first time the cookie is