Following on from my first tutorial of introduction to cookies, this tutorial shows you how to set multiple cookies. Setting multiple cookies can come in handy if you wish to store more than one piece of information about a user, such as Username & Password for example.
We will start off with our form that will allow the user to input the data we want to store.
Index.php
| <form method="post" name="cookie" action="setcookies.php"> <p>First Name : <input type="text" name="firstname" /></p> <p>Surname : <input type="text" name="surname" /></p> <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p> </form> |
As you can see it is a very basic form. 2 input boxes for first name and surname which on submit takes the form to setcookies.php for processing.
setcookies.php
| <?php
$firstname = $_POST['firstname']; // Gives the inputted username a variable name 'firstname' $surname = $_POST['surname']; // Gives the inputted password a variable name 'surname' $time = time(); // Gets the Current Server Time setcookie("Joe2Torials[firstname]", $firstname, $time + 3600); // Set a cookie storing the firstname setcookie("Joe2Torials[surname]", $surname, $time + 3600); // Set a cookie storing the surname /* Both cookies are set to expire in 1 hour, the variable $time grabs the current server time and then adds 3600 adds one day of time to it. 60 * 60 = 3600 (60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in an hour) = 3600 seconds. After the code has run and the cookies have been set the code then forwards the user to the following page: */ header('Location: http://www.domain.com/readcookies.php'); exit(); ?> |
This code grabs the inputted data from the form (firstname and surname) and stores them in variables. The variables are then set inside cookies with the names [firstname] and [surname] (notice the cookie is actually named Joe2Torials) all will come clear about this in the readcookies.php page. After the code has run it automatically forwards the user to readcookies.php.
| <p>Welcome to the admin section. Your firstname and surname is:</p>
<ul> <?php $firstname = $_COOKIE['Joe2Torials']['firstname']; // Read the cookie with the name 'firstname' $surname = $_COOKIE['Joe2Torials']['surname']; // Read the cookie with the name 'surname' echo '<li>'.$firstname.'</li>'; // Echo the firstname echo '<li>'.$surname.'</li>'; // Echo the surname ?> </ul> |
Here we grab the cookies with the names firstname and surname and give them variables, then we display them on screen, simple huh?
Click here to view my writing and reading cookies example page.
