Question

I’m trying to redirect a user if they access a page more than 5 times.
So the basic idea is if a user is not logged in on my site and they are browsing a users profile (profile.php) then this counts the number of hits that cookie session has had and redirects to a page to say sign up or something.

I’m new to php and wouldn’t know where to start. Could someone please show me.

Answer 1

This is very easy to implement in PHP. Just set a session with the count value and read it after each access.Then you can redirect if the count is 5 or more. Below is a sample code

!session_id() ? session_start() : null;
if(!isset($_SESSION['page_access_count'])){
    $_SESSION['page_access_count'] = 1;
}elseif($_SESSION['page_access_count'] >= 5){
    // redirect to signup page
    header('Location:/signup.php');
    exit;
}

    // increase the page access session value
    $_SESSION['page_access_count']++;

    ...