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[Gatorhardware]

We are using cookies to store usernames that are logged on. On the top of each members page is the following:

<?php if (!isset($_COOKIE['cookie'])) die ("You are not logged in"); ?>

If the cookie is set then the pages loads. If it doesn't then the "die" is loaded. This works just fine. BUT I would like to forward the visitor to another page if the cookie is NOT present. I have tried different ideas in the die section of this line but I can not get anything to work. Any ideas on how I can do this?

[Gatorhardware]

Okay I found one way. I check the cookie for a string and if it does not match then I use a META REFRESH to the login screen.

<? $cookiedata = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cookie"]; ?>
<? if ($cookiedata == "") { ?>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0; URL=http://www.mydomain.com/login.php">
<? } else { ?>



HTML STUFF


<? } ?>

Any other ideas?

[sherri]

Try something like this BEFORE you send any output to the browser:

CODE

<?
$cookiedata = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cookie"];

if ($cookiedata == "") {

  header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/login.php");
  exit();

} else { ?>


HTML STUFF


<? } ?>

Note... you do not need to wrap php tags: <? ?> around every line of your script. Just at the start and end of a BLOCK of PHP. It is inefficient to escape in and out of php like that. Only leave php mode if you are outputting a block of html.

[Gatorhardware]

Thank yo sherri that worked great.