Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/23/07 15:21

pete.brooker@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
> a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
> content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
> user.
>
> Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
> cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.
>
> But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
> web.
>
> If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
> very grateful.
>
> Many thanks
> Pete
>

It's pretty easy - you can start at:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
it (except for sites I specify).

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