I've not come for ideas on this one but instead a sample source code of what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm prepared for any downvoting for a request like this but at this point, I'm not getting any further and I need major help or explanation.

I don't understand how you need to set a cookie with the headers..I don't understand how you're supposed to collect user data before you can print headers.

Can someone show me a very basic snippet for checking to see if a cookie exists, if it doesn't print a form and use whatever data they present from the form as the cookie?

All the codes I've seen checked for a cookie and if it didn't exist, they made a cookie with whatever information they want but it didn't require user data.

I don't quite understand the logic of how we're supposed to use specific data as cookie values before you're allowed to print anything. Thank you everyone for your support on this..

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sulfericacid

In reply to A rotten cookie by sulfericacid

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