Displaying What The Guest Is Using

[Programmers]

On my website I have 3 skins. I also have a commenting system where the guests can make comments on recent news.

I would like to implement something so that I, and the other users can see what skin is being used by everyone else. Hopefully, it would look something like this:

Comment By Programmers (Using the red skin)
" c o m m e n t "

I have just sat and wrote my first ever if statement, and it works. However, it never occoured to me that I wrote it to display my own skin. How can I pick up, and display what skins others are using?

Here's what I just wrote, incase it comes in handy:

<?php
$skin = $_COOKIE['myskin'];

if ($skin == "1") {
echo "Using the red skin";
} else if ($skin == "2") {
echo "Using the blue skin";
} else if ($skin == "3") {
echo "Using the purple skin";
} else {
echo "Using the red skin";
}
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Tom.

[eelixduppy]

Retrieve their skin cookie and add it to the table in your database(or where ever you store the comments) when the user submit the form, not when a user reads the comment. Have a try at this first to see where you get. Something like this:

//user submits form already 
$user = $_SESSION['user']; //Are you using sessions for this? 
$text = $_POST['text']; 
if(isset($_COOKIE['myskin'])) { 
   $skin = ($_COOKIE['myskin']-1); 
   $skin_colors = array [us2.php.net]("red","blue","purple"); 
   $skin = $skin_colors[$skin]; 
} 
else { $skin = "red"; } 
//Insert info to DB, using above info 

I used an array just to show you another way. Good luck ;)