Hello,

Could someone direct me to +howto/tutorial on:

I built a site and I want it to display a page with message saying "Welcome to......I hope you enjoy your stay etc etc etc." and at the bottom of such message a checkbox with "Do not display this message again and go directly to page." Any idea how to do something like that?

I forgot to mention - the user should not see the rest of the content before that message. Thanks.

It really depends a lot on how you currently have your site set up but the most simple of answers is to set up a splash page and have it set/check for a cookie with the value of the check box in it. If the cookie is set then you know that they don't want to see the page thus you could redirect them to another page otherwise, if the cookie is not set then don't redirect.

Republikin, do you think the method you described is somewhere well documented as I have only little experience with PHP?

http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/php_cookies/

Read that to learn about cookies, the rest is really just simple if/else statements.

Let me know if you have any more specific questions.

Use this as your main index entry page (do not add anything else to, just create the two alternative page: skip_splash_index.html and show_splash_index.html):

index.php

PHP Code:

<?php
  
  if (isset($_POST['skip_splash'])) {
    
    setcookie('skip_splash', (bool)$_POST['skip_splash'], time()+60*60*24*1095, '/', false, 0);
    $_COOKIE['skip_splash'] = (bool)$_POST['skip_splash'];
  }
  
  if (isset($_COOKIE['skip_splash']) && (bool)$_COOKIE['skip_splash']) {
    
    require('skip_splash_index.html');
    
  } else {
    
    require('show_splash_index.html');
  }
  
?>

And add this to your show_splash_index.html page to add the skip form:

show_splash_index.html

<form name="skip_splash_form" action="index.php" method="post">
  <input type="checkbox" name="skip_splash" id="skip_splash" />
  <label for="skip_splash">
    Skip this splash page on my next visit
  </label>
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>