Cookies are set but not returning

Anon

I have set the cookies and checked them on my harddrive and they are there but the browser is not returning them. The browser has the cookies enabled. Tried IE and NS.
What is wrong with it?

Anon

Balazs,

Are you using $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["value"]; to retrieve the cookie values?

Mike
www.digitalegg.net

Anon

are you trying to read the cookie on a different page to that where it was set? if so, have you set the path and/or domain correctly for the cookie?

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rad

Anon

Tried both...
$my_cookie = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["forum_user"];
echo $forum_user;
echo "c=$my_cookie<BR>\n";
I tried to see the headers that get sent from the browser but they don't include anything connected to the cookie.
This is how I set the cookie:
setcookie("forum_user", $user, time()+1800);
The pages looking for the cookie are all in one dir.

Anon

Balazs,

Have you declared the variable $user anywhere?

setcookie("forum_user", $user, time()+1800);

Try it with a hard coded value instead of user and see if that works. If so then you are not setting $user properly.

eg.

setcookie("forum_user", "MIKE" , time()+1800);

$my_cookie = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["forum_user"];
echo $my_cookie;

Should output MIKE

Regards

Mike
www.digitalegg.net