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[iliviu]

Hello in codeigniter how would I check if the user is visiting the site for the first time, and if they are set a cookie?I am already using the Session library and database sessions which stores the session_id etc, but I need to to be able to check if the user is a first time visitor and if they have a cookie already` \[code\]$cookie = array( 'name' => 'some_value', 'value' => 'The Value', 'expire' => time()+86500, 'domain' => '.some-domain.com', 'path' => '/', 'prefix' => '', ); set_cookie($cookie); var_dump(get_cookie('some_value'));`\[/code\]