Solved: Another Boring Cookie Question

You may remember I asked a few questions a while ago wondering how to write
a cookie to a user's computer from an intro page, and if they return they
are redirected to another page if they have the cookie.
Well if anyone is interested I've found out how to do it using PHP (cookies
are far easier in PHP than in JavaScript) and here is the code I used if
anyone wanted to know for future reference:
<?php
    $exp = mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2001);
    if(!isset($start_cookie)){
       setcookie ("start_cookie", "First Use", $exp);
       include("flashintro.html");
    }else{
       include("front.html");
    }
?>
The mktime() function sets the expiry date in seconds, minutes, hours,
month, day, year format and the cookie then uses an include (like the call
in SSI) to pull in the page depending on whether the cookie is set. This
code must be placed at the top of a page before any HTML (including
DOCTYPEs) and the file must be renamed to .php - this script does however
depend on your webspace having PHP support.

I hope this is useful to someone - they sent me an email requesting
information if I ever found out but I no longer have their address.

Ben Bradley UK
Creative Director - The Net Zone
http://www.thenetzone.co.uk
FAX: 07080 810966 (From UK)
PHONE: 07941 120956 (From UK)

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