Re: [PHP] Not counting my own page visits
[email protected] (David Robley)
| Newsgroups | php.general |
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Angela Barone wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> You can manually write a cookie on your machine, or use a special script
>> that only you visit that contains a setcookie() call (it only need be set
>> once). From there on, you can check the $_COOKIES super global for the
>> presence of your cookie.
>
> I don't know why, but I can't get cookies to work. Here's a script I'm
> calling from my browser:
>
> <?php
> $domain = ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'localhost') ?
> $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] : false;
> $cookie = setcookie('test2', '123' , time()+60*60*24*30, '/', $domain);
> ?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html lang="en">
> <head>
> <meta charset="utf-8" />
> <title>Test Page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <?php echo 'Cookie is: '.$_COOKIE[$cookie]."<br>"; ?>
> <?php echo 'Domain is: '.$domain."<br>"; ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> The domain is being displayed but the cookie is not. There's no cookie in
> the browser prefs, either. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Angela
Misunderstanding what $cookie contains? It is a boolean, i.e. it will be
true or false depending on whether the cookie was set or not. To echo the
contents of a cookie, you need to use the cookie name, viz
<?php echo 'Cookie is: '.$_COOKIE['test2']."<br>"; ?>
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Cheers
David Robley
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