Question

im starting to learn php, a little application im building needs to send visitors to specific pages based on if they have a preferance cookie and if so go to specific page based on which cookie.

so at one part of my application a visitor will be faced with three links, when a visitor clicks a link a cookie remebering the visitors preference will be sent so

Link1 = Prefcookie1
Link2 = Prefcookie2
Link3 = Prefcookie3

at another page it needs to

Check for any prefcookies
if no redirect to index1

If yes check which precookie

If prefcookie = prefcookie1 redirect to index
if prefcookie = prefcookie2 redirect to index1
if precookie = prefcookie3 redirect to index3

Or could somthing similar be achieved through htaccess?

any help greatly appreciated, its that last thing to complete this

Answer 1

PHP would work fine for this:

<?
if($_COOKIE['prefcookie'] == "prefcookie1")
 {header("Location: index");}
elseif($_COOKIE['prefcookie'] == "prefcookie2")
 {header("Location: index2");}
elseif($_COOKIE['prefcookie'] == "prefcookie3")
 {header("Location: index3");}
else
 {header("Location: index1");}
?>

or so