[rocky]

Hi all,

I want to display the information of when the user visited the last. Can this be done via a cookie or a Session .

Please advice ..
Thanks a lot

[digioz]

You can use a cookie for that, but the problem is that some users block all cookies in their browser. So the safest way to do this is by using a combination of both cookies and IP's.

Of course for those users that have a dynamic IP, you will not be able to keep track of them using their IP, since their IP changes everytime they connect to their ISP.

Here is how to set the cookie:

$cookie = setcookie('cookie_name','Your text goes in here! ',time() + (3600));

And this is how you detect to see if the user has already visited your site or not (to see if the cookie is set or not):

if (isset($_COOKIE['cookie_name']))
{
$cookieval = $_COOKIE['entry'];
echo $cookieval;
}

[optix]

Just have your script log the date time stamp of thier login every time they log in and place it in your MySQL database in a field in the same table as their other user info. Then display it the next time they log in.

You said user so I assume you mean that they all log in. If you mean visitors that's a whole different story. There really is no way to guarantee it will work with all visitors because your site will have no absolute way to identify visitors like it can do with users.