Need Help Adding Cookies

What is the use case here? Suppose, once you create the cookie, how do you plan on using that to distinguish first time users, returning users, and subscribers?

You could add something like this in the a plugin or your functions.php

add_action( 'wp_head', 'resource_registered', 30, 2 );
function resource_registered( $entry_id, $form_id ) {
        $cookie_value = 'abc' // some logic here to set the value of the cookie
        setcookie( 'user_status', $cookie_value, time() + 31556926, '/' );
        }
}

I don’t know how to distinguish first time users, returning users, and subscribers – is that something that gets set up in Google Analytics? This is the part that I can’t find information on, I understand where to put the code, but the tutorials I’m finding assume I know “$cookie_value = ‘abc’ // some logic here to set the value of the cookie” – and I am missing this key element of the process. CAn either of you please elaborate on that detail?

If there’s no cookie, they’re a first time user. If they’r e logged in when you set the cookie, they’re a subscriber. If the cookie exists, they’re a returning user.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-set-get-and-delete-wordpress-cookies-like-a-pro/

Thank you Steve – does that mean I can paste the snippet you sent verbatim? or do I need to change “$cookie_value = ‘abc’ // some logic here to set the value of the cookie” to something else to work correctly?

Thanks everyone – a friend sent me the following script and it worked.

function resource_registered($entry_id, $form_id) {
    $value = true;
    setcookie('returning_user', $value, time() + 31556926, '/');
}

if (isset($_COOKIE['returning_user']) && $_COOKIE['returning_user'] == true) {
    // do stuff if cookie is set
}