How to set multiple cookies?

[Anon]

hi, I was wondering how to set multiple cookies? coz very time it said "cannot add header information, header already sent by...",
or are there any better ways to do that such as using session handlers? if so, how to do that?
Thanks a lot!!

[Anon]

personally, now PHP4 has all the session support builtin, i find it a lot easier than fiddling around with cookies by hand.

to use sessions, you just use the following lines at the start of every page you want to share variables...

session_start();
session_register("user_name");
session_register("another_thing");
etc...

(or the variable names can be combined in one call to session_register... session_register("user_name", "another_thing"))

and then use $user_name, $another_thing as normal. PHP takes care of all the cookie stuff brilliantly. the only thing to watch out for is if you are also passing variables around in other ways... if two names conflict, the winner will be decided by the info in your PHP setup - but this shouldn't be a problem if you name variables clearly.

hope it helps

dom
🙂

[Anon]

Thanks dom! but do i have to write session_start() on every page that i want to track the session value (such as a uasername?)

[Anon]

yup, have a session_start() before the rest of your PHP, followed by the session_register().

you could bundle the session stuff in an include, and that would (probably) work.

if you want to know more about sessions (like unregistering variables) theres a couple of articles on PHPBuilder.com -

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/mattias20000105.php3

the PHP manual's pretty good about the details -

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.session.php

dom
🙂