Question

I’ve made a website with a landing page.

I want to set up a checkbox to skip the landing page, directly to the homepage, the next time the user comes to the website.

How can I add a cookie to the checkbox to do what I need?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

You could use a session to do that.

by setting

$_SESSION['skip_intro'] = true;

once the checkbox has been used.

If you need a method to implement that action, you could make your checkbox form use a form with method="GET" and send it to your homepage.

Then you could process that on your homepage with something along the lines of:

if (isset($_GET['always_skip']) && $_GET['always_skip'] == true) {
    $_SESSION['skip_intro'] = true;
}

[assuming your checkbox has name="always_skip" attached to it.]

You could then check on your intro page whether to play the intro or skip it:

if (isset($_SESSION['skip_intro']) && $_SESSION['skip_intro'] == true) {
     //skip intro
     header: ("location: homepage.php");
} else {
     //play intro
}