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[chechu]

Hey,
On lots of sites, at your first visit, you have to chose your language. That information is stored in/by a cookie, so the next time you visit that site, you are immediately forwarded to the language you choose.

How does such a cookie look like ? Is this php or Java ?

[mburt]

PHP or Java*Script.
PHP is super easy to make cookies...
See here:

setcookie(cookiename,data,time()+3600);

and to retrieve like so

$_COOKIE[cookiename];

[joycie]

May I know if it is possible to create cookies so that I could track what people are doing on my site, such as downloading photos, songs, the page they view etc?

[tech_support]

On every page,

$cookiename = "tracker";
$olddata = $_COOKIE[$cookiename];
$newdata = "Visited page " . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$data = $olddata . $newdata;
setcookie($cookiename,$data,time()+3600); 

[thetestingsite]

setcookie(cookiename,data,time()+3600);

This should actually be like this:

setcookie($cookiename,$data,time()+3600);

[tech_support]

Oops... My bad.
Fixed now.

[joycie]

Many thanks for both your help.
After that, how do I retreive the record to check?
Is it possible to tell the location (such as ip) of each person?

[tech_support]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...7&postcount=18

[joycie]

Thanks but is there one that can combine with the above code?
I only need to know the IP of the person.

[tech_support]

$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]