Intro page / splash screen

[AusQB]

I'm trying to replicate certain Flash sites that have an initial display that has "Enter site" or something that loads the site when you click it.

Right now I have my main div for the page and a separate div for the intro page. When the page loads, the intro div is displayed, and upon being clicked, a simple JavaScript function swaps the visibility of the two divs.

The problem however, is that every time the user clicks the "home" link, they are shown that intro page. What I need is to only show that intro page the first time the user visits the site in a particular session. I think a cookie script is required.

 

[conor]

sessions would be more appropriate than cookies.

session_start();

if(@$_SESSION['views']==1) include 'normalpage.php';
else{
   $_SESSION['views']=1;
   include 'splashscreen.php';
}

sessions will last untill the browser is closed

 

[AusQB]

Exactly what I needed, thanks.