Cookie to stop flash movie re-playing 1

[joebest]

Hello people,

I'm developing a site which has a flash intro (it's been imposed on me by the directors) that has already caused major problems due to the way it displays. I've managed to get around those, but i was wondering if any of you guys know how to stop the movie playing again once a visitor has seen it. I'm assuming it would be some kind of cookie, but i don't know how to implement that.
TIA.
Joe

 

[Foamcow]

Use actionscript within the flash movie to call a script to set a cookie. The script can be written in Javascript or a server side language (PHP, ASP, ColdFusion etc) which is probably preferable.

Then, on the page that loads the Flash movie, first use a script to check for the presence of the Cookie.

In PHP to set a cookie use

<?php
setcookie('skipIntro','true');
?>

and to check the cookie

<?php
if($_COOKIES['skipIntro'] != true){
  show_the_flash_page
} else {
  do_something_else
}
?>

You may also want to look at

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

if you are using PHP.

None of the options are XHTML or CSS related though.
try these forums for further info
Javascript Forum (Forum216)
PHP Forum (Forum434)


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