Question

How do I redirect to a splash page once with cookies?

I’m setting the cookie on my splash.php page to this:

<?php 
$expire = time()+60;
setcookie("no_splash", "1", $expire);
?>

On that page there’s a link to my index.php with this:

<?php
if($_COOKIE['no_splash']== '1') {
    header("Location: index.php");
    echo "it works";
} else if($_COOKIE['no_splash']!= '1') {
    header("Location: splash.php");
};
?>

I keep getting a redirect loop error but can’t figure why.

Answer 1

You are redirecting to index.php from the index.php file, hence the loop.

Change your code to be simply

if($_COOKIE['no_splash'] != '1') {
    header("Location: splash.php");
    exit;
}

or indeed

if(!$_COOKIE['no_splash']) {
    header("Location: splash.php");
    exit;
}

which is the same thing.