Do you know this trick?

Make a link appear on certain visit

[GuruSan]

Hi

I want a particular link to display on my webpage (homepage) only on 2nd or subsequent visit by the visitor. (Presume that the visitor does not clear the cookies during these visits.)
This link should not be visible on first visit to the webpage (homepage).

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld GuruSan.

It would really depend on how your site operates, but essentially yes, you could set a cookie and then retrieve that value and show a visitor specific content based on that value.

[GuruSan]

Thanks Bill.

I have embedded a flash element on my homepage in html. The visitor proceeds by clicking on the flash element.

Although I know what you are saying w.r.t. to setting a cookie etc.; but I do not know how to do this in practice. Would you mind sharing something definite like say a code snippet to do this?

Or where else (or how) can I get to know this better?

-Ashish

[Habtom]

You could do something like the following in PHP.

<?php

if (!isset($_COOKIE['Visited'])) {
setcookie('Visited', $value);
} else {
echo "<a href=\"\">your link here</a>";
}

?>

[Habtom]

Details of how you set your cookie is here. [php.net]

[GuruSan]

Wow Habtom! Thank you very much for this great help! will try this and get back here with my progress/result.