please help me again

[Lue_chin]

hello experts and owner of site i want code that a person ip can visit only one day one time of a page for ex:
if ip same then the file can not display and if new ip or ip next day come then the file shows

[something else]

without using database:

if($_COOKIE["filedata"]<time())
{
   echo "download link";
}
if(!$_COOKIE["filedata"]) //save cookie being updated to new 
{
     $day = time()+86400;
    setcookie("filedata", $day, $day);
} 

[softwarefreak]

without using database:

if($_COOKIE["filedata"]<time()) 
{ 
   echo "download link"; 
} 
if(!$_COOKIE["filedata"]) //save cookie being updated to new  
{ 
     $day = time()+86400; 
    setcookie("filedata", $day, $day); 
} 

very nice for a script where security ain't dat imp, thanks,it came to my mind lately(after I saw the post :D)

Final edit :D

[something else]

i did a slight edit to it afterward lol

[softwarefreak]

My small edit of somthing's code

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE["filedata"]) && $_COOKIE["filedata"]>time())  
{
    echo "Come back tomorrow for another cookie :P";  
}  
else
{
    
     $day = time()+86400;  
    setcookie("filedata", $day, $day);  
   echo "download link";    
}  
?>