I am working on a cookie tracking system for a website and I am trying to determine if cookies are set using php. I have found the following code

http://sarat.pediredla.name/2005/06/...s-are-enabled/

but, I wonder if I had this on every page, it sorta seems like it would affect seo. I realize I could check for the cookies using javascript, but then I still need to get back to the php after I know if cookies are enabled. And I'd need to pass alot of variables, etc.

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

Thanks!

If you wanted to frame your website (which I love doing with menus anyways), you could simply have the main frame that is static have that code.

This way it's only checked once.

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There are certain instances where they may be necessary/useful... but I would avoid both header redirects and frames.

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Yes, I really am trying to avoid both. I think I am just going to use php to write the cookies, and I won't add the user to the database until after the cookie is read on the second page that they visit.

One alternative would be to use sessions and pass the session ID in the query string. Or simply accept that cookies will not work for some visitors and don't make any of the site reliant on them. This is a good practice, and it applies to a number of other capabilities, including Javascript.

Make the basic site work without the bells and whistles, and then implement the additional features so that the site degrades gracefully.

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