Category redirect using cookies

Hi,

I have searched through a lot of posts trying to find a solution to this but could only find ones related to permanent redirects and changing cookie timeouts. Likewise with the plugins – there doesn’t seem to be any that solves my problem.

What I want to achieve:
When a person comes to the site and selects a particular category, the next time they come to the site (returning user) – the page will open up on that category section.

I would think this would be fairly easy to do via setting a cookie when the visitor clicks on the category link (or when the category page loads). When they return the following time, the cookie is read and then the page redirects accordingly.

Unfortunately my knowledge of PHP and cookies is limited, (hence my search for answers) so I need to ask if anyone can help me out!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!