Cookies

Anon

Hi all,

I am having some problems with cookies.

I set several cookies in a function using setcookie(). If these cookies are set then I redirect the user back to the login page. Once the page is loaded, the cookies are not set - I have called phpinfo() after the page is set and the cookies are not visible.

I have also called phpinfo() after the setcookie() functions and the cookies ARE in HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. Also, the cookies are not physically on my hard drive (i am running apache and PHP on linux in a virtual machine on win2000)

Can anyone please help!! I'm about to give up - this is driving me nuts!!

Thanks in advance,

Jackie.

Anon

What names are you using for your cookies? I have found that if you place a minus sign (-) anywhere in the name it doesn't work. So I've started using underscores instead.

Anon

Hi Lloyd,

This is how I am setting a cookie :
$time = mktime()+1000;
$date = date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time));
setcookie("errorusername", $msg, $date);

After this is set in a function, I call
header("Location: http://192.168.0.2/findXSA/test/main/main2.php");

When I call phpinfo() on main2.php the cookies are not visible. They aren't even on my hard drive. I don't know what's going on!!

Jackie.

Anon

Well that would be because you're setting the cookie expiry time to the exact second that they are created, you need to either set it to some time in the future, or to just leave out the data parameter to have it delete itself when the user closes their browser.

So option 1, just make the cookie last longer.

$time = mktime()+1000;
$date = date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time+3600)); //Time + 3600 seconds (1hour)
setcookie("errorusername", $msg, $date);

Option 2, just loose the date altogether.

$time = mktime()+1000;
setcookie("errorusername", $msg);

That should work for you now 🙂