Question

I was thinking of a system that will allow users to post only 1 article per 20 min. I don’t use a member system so I thought I could set a cookie for 20 min. And when user posts something check if cookie is set if yes show message like “Only 1 post per 20 min allowed” if it is not set than put stuff in database.

I’m relatively new to php and don’t know how to set cookies, I tried looking at php.net manual on cookies, but it was too confusing for me. So can you please show how to set a secure cookie for 20 min and check if it is or is not set. Maybe you have Better suggestions that will work instead of cookies etc.

Thank You.

Answer 1

See these functions:

• setCookie
• get cookie value

To set a cookie for 20 min you can do this:

setcookie("postedArticle", true, time() + (60 * 20)); // 60 seconds ( 1 minute) * 20 = 20 minutes

Check if cookie is set:

if(isset($_COOKIE['postedArticle']) && $_COOKIE['postedArticle'] == true)
{ 
    // IS SET and has a true value
}