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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:27:29+00:00

I want to check which users accept cookies so I can get a rough

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I want to check which users accept cookies so I can get a rough % of users that accept cookies on one of our PHP sites.

My idea is to create a temporary acceptsCookies column in the Users table to help keep track of this (e.g. if a user accepts cookies, then their acceptsCookies will be set to “Y”, otherwise it will be set to “N”).

How can I do this on a single page (setting a test cookie, checking if it was accepted/set, updating the DB) ?

Update: To be clear, this has to be done 100% in PHP.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t do it in a single step, as the cookie has to be SENT to the browser first, and will only sent back to you in a subsequent request. So if you had something like:

    <?php
    session_start();
    session_write_close(); // unlock session file so checkcookie.php below won't block.
    setcookie(...);
?>
<html>
<body>

<img src="checkcookie.php" width="0" height="0" />

    you could have the checkcookie.php script update your session’s acceptsCookie value.

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