Busy — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:05:30 +0000

Some of us have no choice about using dial up

Nicholas — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:29:22 +0000

I just said use full address in header because mine only worked that way, may be different for others. And yea I didn't think about dial-up, its so old I forgot people use it.

Busy — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:34:57 +0000

Were you able to find a solution?

For the record you don't need the full url in Header, header("Location: index1.php"); would work just fine.

And storing IP isn't fool proof either as proxy hosts (dialup etc) can use random IP range (within a range).
Just remember if you use time() it's the server's time not your local time.

Nicholas — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:52:21 +0000

MyFreeCounter wrote: some info:

setting cookies - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
to delete them, simply reset the cookie only without a value or with an expiration time in the past.

retrieving cookies - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.cookies
gets the value - $_COOKIE['Cookie_Name']

so basically, you need to have on index 2 a segment that checks for the cookie:

if ($_COOKIE['your_cookie_name']!='some_value') {
header("Location: index1.php");
}

then on index 1, you need to have something that sets your cookie:

setcookie("your_cookie_name","some_value",time()+100000000);

it should work, let me know.

Your code is flawed...in the line
header("Location: index1.php"); '
you need to have the exact location of the file, atleast it was that way in my experience. For example, instead of index1.php, it would have to be
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/index1.php"); '

Also, I wouldn't bother with cookies, because they wear off or get deleted eventually. I would use an SQL database to store ip's and scan the list for the person's ip address and if it's not there have it redirect and add their ip address to the list.

Once again, another easier way to tell how long a cookie will last is to use, in the cookie set line, the following format, "time() +60*60*24*7*52" 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours times 7 days times 52 weeks, obviously this is one year, instead of using 10000000000 and not being able to tell by simply looking at it how long it is.

Busy — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:41:52 +0000

Can you use a session variable? for those who except cookies the session becomes a cookie, for those who dont it remains a session

Saeru — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:39:04 +0000

I have tried something like that, but it wont redirect. I had also added in a small extra code that would tell me if the cookie did get set (for testing)
I got it to set one time (cookie set on a 1 minute expier time again for testing) I got the cookie to set one time (though I had to manually go to index1,) but after that one time it wont set again.

I've used cookies before so I do know how to work with them.. but never tried to do something like this, so it's really baffleing me.

MyFreeCounter — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:02:26 +0000

some info:

setting cookies - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
to delete them, simply reset the cookie only without a value or with an expiration time in the past.

retrieving cookies - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.cookies
gets the value - $_COOKIE['Cookie_Name']

so basically, you need to have on index 2 a segment that checks for the cookie:

if ($_COOKIE['your_cookie_name']!='some_value') {
header("Location: index1.php");
}

then on index 1, you need to have something that sets your cookie:

setcookie("your_cookie_name","some_value",time()+100000000);

it should work, let me know.

Matt Pegler
MyFreeCounter Owner/Operator
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