How to redirect a page after 3 views

[webandwe]

Hi,

I have page x. when you try to visit page x for the 3rd time it must go to page y?

I have no idea how this work or should work, can someone please give me some ideas, as I say I don't even know the first line of coding as I never tried, seen or work with something like this.

I will be able to do it with cookies, but if the persons disable his cookies then it will not work and I need to make it php.

Kind Regards
Louwrens

[shoonya]

okk

if you dont want to use cookies then you may have to use data base
because even the php sessions maintains the cookie
you can have a temporary counter in database and increment it every time a user views the page
and then redirect him accordingly

but then even simple refreshing will increase the count

shoonya

[Atli]

I would recommend using Sessions. Although, as shoonya said, they use cookies, they will work even if cookies are disabled. Sessions can go as far as hashing the session ID into the URL before giving up.

This is incredibly simple using Sessions. For example:

// Start session
session_start();
 
// Check if the session var exists.
if(isset($_SESSION['visitCount'])){
  // Increment the count
  $_SESSION['visitCount'] += 1;
 
  // Check if it has reached the max (3)
  if($_SESSION['visitCount'] >= 3) {
    header("Location: www.google.com");
  }
}
 
// Create the session var
else {
  $_SESSION['visitCount'] = 1;
}
 

[shoonya]

@ atil

how will the php session handler react, when the cookies are deleted while the session is alive ??

shoonya

[webandwe]

Thanks Atil,



(this message is not to short)

[Atli]

Happy to help.

@ shoonya
PHP, as a sever-side language, can manipulate HTTP Headers, and so it can use HTTP POST and GET to pass along the SESSIONID.
It is not uncommon to see the PHPSESSIONID variable being passed in the URL when browsing a PHP page, as the Cookie is somewhat unreliable and can apparently be left out, which PHP reacts to by passing the ID by alternate means.