Hi and thanks for the reply. What I am trying to do is very basic, I'm sure.
Again, here is my code - see comments for questions.
<?php
$cookie_name = "wwwmydomaincom";
setcookie($cookie_name, time(), time()+7200); //say cookie is received at
3:00pm
//here you say that the cookie will be set again, even if it has expired.
//the problem is, when I try to check to see if the cookie exists -
// using $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS - I get some error about the header...
//so what souldd teh code look like?
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>cookie test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
$cookie_content = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$cookie_name];
if ($cookie_content > (time()-7200))
//say it's now 4:00pm - if your cookie timestamp (3:00pm) is greater than
//(i.e. after) 2:00pm (now minus 2 hours) then you can't come in
{
print "Go away! You are allowed in here only once every 2 hours.";
}
else
{
print "Welcome! You have not been here more than once in the past 2 hours.";
}
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>
