"Andrew Ballard" <aballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b6023aa40904150926g3e6fb478s36b18b6a53ec3b4f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Jason Pruim <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:11 PM, "Don" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have some code in my index.php file that check the user agent and >> redirects to a warning page if IE 6 or less is encountered. >> >> 1. I'm using a framework and so calls to all pages go through index.php >> 2. The code that checks for IE 6 or less and redirects is in index.php >> >> I know how to redirect the users but what I want to do is redirect a user >> ONLY the first time the web site is accessed regardless of what page they >> first access. I would like to minimize overhead (no database). Can this >> be >> done? >> >> Thanks, >> Don >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > Probably the best way I could think of would be to set a cookie on their > computer that you check for when they come and redirect based on that > cookie. > > It's not completely fail proof because all they have to do is clear > cookies > and they will see it again but it should work for most people. > Well, there is that ... and if the browser does not accept your > cookie, it will be trapped in an infinte redirection cycle. > Andrew Yes and from php.net, "Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for." So there's no PHP solution for my problem? I think I need to use unreliable JavaScript. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
