[RESOLVED] Setting Cookie to a City

**beylah** · 06-12-2012 02:06 PM

I would like users to choose their city when they first come to the site and then this will be their preference from then on.

Can someone help me with this coding. Thanks

**criterion9** · 06-12-2012 04:34 PM

Use a form to get the user to input text or choose from a list or how ever you decide to get the data. Then look up cookie handling in php for how to create/read a cookie.

**beylah** · 06-13-2012 12:38 PM

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory'])) {
$preference = $_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory'];

header("location:main.php?city=$preference");
exit;
}

//this adds 30 days to the current time
$month = 2592000 + time();

if (isset($_POST['Submit'])){
$city=$_POST['city'];
}
setcookie('FaskenDirectory', $city, $month);

header("location:main.php?city={$_POST[city]}");

?>

<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
<p class="head">Please select your home city.</p>
<form name="FaskenDirectory" method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">
<table cellpadding="10">
<tr><td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Vancouver">Vancouver</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Calgary">Calgary</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Toronto">Toronto</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Ottawa">Ottawa</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Montreal">Montreal</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Quebec">Quebec</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="London">London</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Paris">Paris</td>
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="9"><input type="image" value="Submit" src="images/select.jpg" border="0"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

**beylah** · 06-13-2012 01:49 PM

First I created an index page with the form and a check for the cookie.

PHP Code:


<?php

if(isset($_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory'])) {

$preference = $_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory'];



header("location:main.php?city=$preference");

exit;

}

?>

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Directory</title>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<link href="images/favicon.ico" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<p class="head">Please select your home city.</p>
<form name="FaskenDirectory" method="post" action="setcookie.php">
<table cellpadding="10">
<tr><td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Vancouver">Vancouver</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Calgary">Calgary</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Toronto">Toronto</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Ottawa">Ottawa</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Montreal">Montreal</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Quebec">Quebec</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="London">London</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Paris">Paris</td> 
<td><input name="city" type="radio" VALUE="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="9"><input type="image" value="Submit" src="images/select.jpg" border="0"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Then I created a second page to set the cookie

PHP Code:


<?php

$month = 2592000 + time();



if($_POST['Submit']){

$city=$_POST['city'];

}

setcookie("FaskenDirectory", $city, $month);



header("location:main.php?city={$_POST[city]}");



?>

**beylah** · 06-13-2012 02:05 PM

I believe I have the cookie set but I cannot get it to bypass the index page if the cookie is set.

This is at the top of the index page

PHP Code:


<?php 

if(isset($_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory'])) { 

$preference = $_COOKIE['FaskenDirectory']; 



header("location:main.php?city=$preference"); 

exit; 

} 

?>

**criterion9** · 06-13-2012 02:14 PM

In the first post you had a little leap of logic:

if (isset($_POST['Submit'])){
$city=$_POST['city'];
}
setcookie('FaskenDirectory', $city, $month);

header("location:main.php?city={$_POST[city]}");

Can you check in your browser if the cookie is actually being set? Also, if running as "localhost" cookies can be sometimes problematic.

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