cookies

[Anon]

Hi,

OK Ive read the manual, looked at other peoples problems with them, and Im still stoofed!

I have a threes scripts

1. user selects the language
2. $lang variable gets set into a cookie
3. main page with selected header for that language:

The main is set to display the cookie if it exists, but i just keep getting "cookie not set.."

Any help on this code?

1.------------index.php3--------------

$cookie = "setcookie.php3";

echo "<A HREF=\"$cookie?&lang=En\">English</A>";

1.------------setcookie.php3--------------

<?

$header = "languages/$lang/header.php3";
$footer = "languages/$lang/footer.php3";

setcookie ("langheader", $header, "/", ".domain.com", 0);

setcookie ("langfooter", $footer, "/", ".domain.com", 0);

header ("Location: main.php3");

?>

1.------------main.php3--------------

<?php

if(isset( $langheader )){
print " cookie 'langheader': $langheader\n";
} else {
print " no cookie set ...\n";
}

?>

[Anon]

I'd say your problem is right here:

<?php

if(isset( $langheader )){
print " cookie 'langheader': $langheader\n";
} else {
print " no cookie set ...\n";
}
?>

you need to set

$langheader = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["langheader"];

first.

that should work!

Jim

[Anon]

Hi, thanks for that, but still getting no cookie set.

Im very confused right now!!!!

Kevin

[Anon]

Kevin, unless your domain name is "domain.com," I hope the code you posted is not the code you're using.

More importantly, your arguments to set_cookie are not in the right order. You have

setcookie ("langheader",
$header,
"/",
".domain.com",
0);

It should be
setcookie ("langheader",
$header,
"0", // or any other # of seconds
"/", // or any other path
".domain.com", // your domain, or omit
0 // you can omit this arg as well
);

[Anon]

Steve, no the domain was set to that for the purpose of this posting.

even with your alterations Im not having much luck - any suggestions what i could be doing wrong using my earlier post as reference?

[Anon]

I had no problems at all after rewriting setcookie.php3:

<?

$header = "languages/$lang/header.php3";
$footer = "languages/$lang/footer.php3";

setcookie ("langheader", $header, "/");
setcookie ("langfooter", $footer, "/");
header ("Location: main.php3");

?>

Omit the arguments you aren't using.

To set a "permanent" cookie, set an expiration time ridiculously far into the future.