Can't set cookies w/PHP4

[Anon]

Can anyone explain to me why I can't set a cookie thusly?:

setcookie("saved_cuisine_clause",$cuisine_clause,
time()+180);

I am trying to preserve a SQL query over multiple invocations of a PHP page, and this call does absolutely nothing!!!! I'm using IE5 for testing, and I do have cookies enabled. I am making the setcookie call before printing any HTML to the browser. At one point I didn't and I immediately got an error, so I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.

Other things that don't work:

header("Set-cookie: saved_cuisine_clause=" . $cuisine_clause);

setenv("saved_cuisine_clause=" . $cuisine_clause);

In all cases, the next invocation does not have anything in $saved_cuisine_clause...

[Anon]

The first thing to check, is that setting your cookies is done before anything is printed out to the user. IE: put it in the first few lines of code, then everything from that oint forward. Or just make sure that nothing is getting printed out at all the user before the cookies....that's essential.

The next thing is, try using this seekcookie value: setcookie("saved_cuisine_clause",$cuisine_clause,
"time()+180)","","");