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So I'm fairly new to PHP and I've written up my first code to basically create two cookies to track the time the user last opened the website and a counter.
I want my website to display the time the person last opened up the website, with a counter saying "it's the $cookieValue you've visited us!".
<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php
$cookieValue = 1;
setcookie("time", $cookieValue, time()+(86400*365));
$cookieLastVisit = null;
setcookie("lastVisit", $cookieLastVisit, time()+(86400*365));
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Question 2</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (!isset($_COOKIE["time"])){
echo ("Welcome to my webpage! It is the first time that you are here.");
$visit = date(DATE_RFC1036);
setcookie("lastVisit", $visit);
}
else {
$cookieValue = ++$_COOKIE["time"];
echo("Hello, this is the " . $cookieValue . " time that you are visiting my webpage. Last time you visited my webpage on: " . $cookieLastVisit);
$visit = date(DATE_RFC1036);
setcookie("lastVisit", $visit);
}
?>
</body>
</html>
I've finished my code but can't grasp why when I open my website, absolutely nothing happens.
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asked Dec 03 '25 10:12
You will need to put all setcookie() function calls at the top of the page, before any output is sent to the browser.
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