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The other SSI include is a small tables-based calendar. On the initial visit to my site I want the current month's calendar to be loaded via an SSI include. The visitor has the ability to change to a different month's calendar. I want to use cookies to keep track of which month's calendar is currently loaded.
I want the visitor to be able to select a calendar month and have it NOT CHANGE as they browse around in my site. The only time I want the calendar to change is if the visitor himself selects different month.
I don't know much about cookies but I've done a lot of reading in the last day and I know a cookie can be set using java script or cgi script via SSI. I don't know the details of how to do it yet. I also don't know how to set up an SSI include that pushes out the correct include file based on an existing cookie setting.
So... with my limited knowlege I at least know:
1) I have to have a mechanism to set a cookie that will tell me what calendar the visitor currently has loaded.
2) I need to find a mechanism to look at the cookie on each web request and provide the visitor with the same calendar he had before.
3) I need a mechanism to update the cookie whenever the visitor changes months.
This seems like it should be doable. I'd appreciate it if anyone could give a newbie some hints. Otherwise, it's back to google and read read read!
