在Laravel 4.1中使用cookie重定向

Question

I am trying to drop a cookie for a specific view, so that a user can only visit that page once. However, what I have now is not redirecting the user away from the view on repeated viewings like I want. Here is what I have:

public function getWelcome() {
            // Drop cookies and check for it...

            $cookie =  Cookie::get('cs_welcome');

            if(isset($cookie) && $cookie == 1) {
                return Redirect::to('/fans/'.Auth::user()->url_tag);
            }
            else {
                $cookie = Cookie::forever('cs_welcome', 1);
            }

            return View::make('fans.welcome');

Basically I want them to only see the fans.welcome view once. If it is a repeated visit, I want them to go to /fans/Auth::user()->url_tag. Is there something I'm missing here? Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

IMO I believe that with that approach a user can wipe their navigation cookies and then when they go into their account they we'll se the welcome page again.

To have a real persistence that the user saw the welcome screen I recommend that you save that information in your database and relate that to the user.

Let's say $user->sawWelcomePage = true