Comments on: Check cookies with php

By: gizzer

gizzer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:02:24 +0000

all this cookie talk has made me hungry

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:23:28 +0000

Yes, it must be $_COOKIE['test']

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:17:46 +0000

Don’t you have to say:

$_COOKIE['test']

instead of:

$_COOKIE[test]

I use a lot of PHP and that’s always how I’ve done it.

By: SA

SA — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:30:08 +0000

Also i just wanted to say a really easy way to check cookies is with javascripts DOM

if (!navigator.cookieEnabled) {
document.write(“No Cookies”);
}else{
document.write(“Cookies Ok”);
}

By: SA

SA — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:16:11 +0000

The correct solution would be the first check to make sure the user has Javascript enabled and then check to make sure that cookies are enabled. I would agree with Bryansu that using a client side script rather then a server side script would make more sense and be more reliable.

By: KJ

KJ — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:32:06 +0000

I strongly disagree with the Javascript solution. Lots of users turn off Javascript, so you may not get a reliable answer, whereas a server-side solution is sure to be executed.

By: Bryansu

Bryansu — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:28:13 +0000

You cant use php to do a cookies enable checking. In the initial stage before logging in the member page, you can do a redirect on the script to check if the client browser is cookie enable, but what if the user turn if the cookie half way browsing through your website?

The best way is to use javascript to check, because it’s always client-side script and you don’t need to reload the php page.