Cookie Question

nitestarz posted this at 19:44 — 23rd March 2004.

Joined: Dec 2002

I am new to writing cookies. What i am looking to do is when someone comes to my web site and if they have a query string attached I would like a cookie to store that query string until they get to my contact page where it will get placed and sent to me. This is so I know where people are coming from. Is there a tutorial on how to do this?

Thanks!

druagord posted this at 20:18 — 23rd March 2004.

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well fisrt what language are you using ?
then your language should have a function to grab the querystring put it in a cookie with a name you will remember use it as any aother cookie

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about

nitestarz posted this at 20:19 — 23rd March 2004.

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I will be using PHP

druagord posted this at 20:34 — 23rd March 2004.

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first use session variables it will manage the cookie for you

<?php
session_start();
?>

this as to be in the code before any headers are sent ie.: ( or header(); or anything like that)

<?php
$_SESSION['myquery']=$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
?>

i would suggest you also check what's in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] you casn find what he type in google like this

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about