Question

I am looking for some code that will return me values if the user has JavaScript enabled or disabled, as well as cookies.

I know this is probably easy to do, but my time constraints are so tight, it hurts. There has to be something out there using php that does this. Ideally I would love to find code that has a page setup with all the possible values that could affect my scripts.

EDIT: Obviously JavaScript may be disabled, but, I am hoping that I can find something out there to test the two cases.

My Solution

For anoyone else looking for code to detect if the users has cookie enabled or disabled, here is what I ended up coming up with from the posts below… you can just drop this at teh top of any page and it works…

<?php
// do a cookie test
if (!isset($_SESSION['cookie_check']))
{
    if (!isset($_GET['cc']))
    {
        // drop a cookie in their bag
        setcookie("cookiecheck", "ok", time()+3600);
        header("Location: ".$common->selfURL()."?cc=1");
        exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
        // do we have a problem?
        if (@$_COOKIE['cookiecheck'] != "ok")
        {
            // we have a problem
            header("Location: /site-diag.php");
            exit(0);
        }
        else
        {
            $_SESSION['cookie_check'] = true;
        }
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

First, realize that you can’t use JavaScript to check for cookies if JavaScript is turned off. The usual check for cookies being on is to write one and then read it.

Do you care about the case when cookies are on but JavaScript is off? What are you going to do based on the information?

I found this code here for checking for a cookie via PHP. Doesn’t rely on JavaScript. Is PHP your server language?

<?php
class cookieCheck
{

    public function check()
    {
        if (setcookie("test", "test", time() + 100))
        {
            //COOKIE IS SET 
            if (isset ($_COOKIE['test']))
            {
                return "Cookies are enabled on your browser";
            }
            else
            {
                return "Cookies are <b>NOT</b> enabled on your browser";
            }
        }

    }
}
?>