Detect first time visitors

[Rissinko]

Hi,

Is there any solution how to detect in tpl file visitor which is on page for first time ? I want to create Welcome animation but show it only for first time visitors. Maybe something like detect if cookies were already created or somethink like that.

 

 

Thanks. 

[rocky]

You can do this by checking the $_COOKIE array, since it can't be modified until the page refreshes. For example, put the following line in the PHP file:

 

$this->context->smarty->assign('first_time', count($_COOKIE) == 0);

 

And then in your TPL file:

 

{if $first_time}Welcome code goes here{/if}