cookies...[RESOLVED thanks]

[yair24]

hello,

I need to make a login page.
back when I used to program in ASP I was reading the username and pasword comparing it to thr one in the databse and if it was correct then I sould setup a cookie with a TRUE value and then in each page I would have check if the cookie exist and if so I would have know that the user is still loged.

when the user closes the browzer the cookie vanished. and the session is over.

so why am I telling you all this?
because in PHP I cannot do that... it tells me to put the SetCookie() function on top of the page so I cannot check the database before puting the cookie...

what can I do?

I hope the question is clear...

thanks