Regarding cookies

[Anon]

Hi,

I am working on php4 with apache. When user hits the page I would like to check the user for authentification by using cookies. How can I do that. Could you please give me an exaple. I donot want to go for sessions.

[Anon]

in php3 you used

setcookie("cookie_name","cookie_value");

before the page header was sent.

Then subsequent pages on the site just treat the variable as normal. The page that initially sets the cookie might not see it, so try something like:

<? if ($myCookie==""):
setcookie("myCookie","foo");
$myCookie="foo";
endif;
?>

<? echo "myCookie= $myCookie"; ?>

Haven't used PHP4 - your mileage may vary.. :⁾

[Anon]

i also define time for the cookie, so it wont live forever..

seetcookie("dummy","user:password",time()+86400);

then this will live for one day, not more.
it may be pretty important when authenticating no to define cookies without any time limits.

then I explde the $dummy at :, an then i get $user and $password

there we go 🙂

Regards,