Hi,

I want to build a feature into my site where people can pick out 5 of some 5000 favourite links to be displayed as the users favourite links across the site. I'm working on a perl script that will hopefully allow for this...

However, I wanted to expand on the usual format of the cookie I have. Ideallly a single cookie will hold the 5 values for each seperate id of the link.

The values would be one for each link and would consist of an id+4 digits which are picked off a query string. There is a .HTaccess file and XSSI code to deal with thr front end.

Link would be fired on the website by either:
<a href="/cgi-bin/setfavourite.pl?<!--#echo var="PAGE_ID" -->&addfavlink">Add <!--#echo var="label" --></a> for adding a one
&
<a href="/cgi-bin/setfavourite.pl?<!--#echo var="PAGE_ID" -->&removefavlink">Remove <!--#echo var="label" --></a> for removing a one.

Here is the PERL code I have so far: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI;

$query = new CGI;
    my ($number, $fav1, $fav2, $fav3, $fav4, $fav5, $cookie);
    my $nextpage ='http://www.domain.co.uk/';

if (m/^(\d+)&addfavlink/)
    { $number = $1;
      $addfavlink = "id".$number;
      $cookie = $query -> cookie(  -NAME    => 'FAV5LINK',
                                -VALUE     => '$fav1', '$fav2', '$fav3
+', '$fav4', '$fav5',
                                -EXPIRES     => '+1y',
                                -DOMAIN      => '.domain',
                                -PATH    => '/',
                                -SECURE    => '0'
                                   );
        print $query -> header( -COOKIE    => $cookie,
                                -LOCATION => $nextpage."userchoice.sht
+ml?id=$number&added"
                                );
 }
elsif (m/^(\d+)&removefavlink/)
    { $cookie = $query -> cookie(    -name    => 'FAV5LINK',
                                    -VALUE      => '$fav1','$fav2','$f
+av3','$fav4','$fav5',
                                    -EXPIRES => '-1h',
                                    -DOMAIN  => '.domain,
                                    -PATH     => '/',
                                    -SECURE     => '0'
                                  );
       print $query -> header( -COOKIE   => $cookie,
                                -LOCATION => $nextpage."removed.html"
                                );<br />
 }
exit 0;

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The content should define in the content area of the cookie the values *= omitted *(fav1=)id0008... etc ...etc

Ideally I wanted to allow for updating the cookies values to allow for replacing the 'fav1' with something else or the user adding a 'fav2'. Also there would only be a maxiumum of 5 values for this named cookie.

I got my head around it a little bit but am in much need of help.

many thanks, mat

In reply to CGI cookies: in much need of help by matc

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