Cookie not enabling till Refresh

Anon

I have a wierd problem of cookie not enabling till I press F5(Refresh page) on my IE5 browser.

I have an index.php3 which sets one cookie.
It accepts username and password and encrypts in an admin.php3, sets another 2 cookies of login and password.

I look for the value of the cookie
using :
if (!isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cadmin"])) {

echo "this page cannot be accessed" ;
exit ;

}
Like wise in the same if condition i check for existence of Cookie of Username and Password (in total 3, with cadmin)

I get the above error 1st when loading admin.php3, and when i press F5, it allows me to go ahead to access the main menu.

Any idea, how to resolve this problem.
Before setting the cookie, i am checking for the DB access and setting the dblink(hostname,DBusername, DBpassword)

Thanks in advance,
Bijal.

Anon

Yes... this is correct... Here is the reson:

When you request a page the first thing the browser does is to check if you got any cookies for this page. if you do it will be sent.

Then it check if the server set any cookies and store them.

The it will display the page.

So you see. Cookies are sent before they are stored. Therefor you need to refresh the browser until you get it back...

you could do something like this:

setcookie('mycookie', $mycookie = $cookie_value, time()+$whatever);

If you do this you can use the $mycookie variable at once..

Andreas

Anon

friends,
hello i am comimg across the problem in mysql whwn i am trying to coonect to data base through mysql_connect() function i am getting this error message:
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/httpd/html/phpfiles/con.php3 on line 3

HELP

Anon

"unsupported or undefined function" means your copy of PHP has been compiled without mySQL support.

Get a version that does, or compile it yourself with mySQL enabled.

Anon

Hello steve
Get a version that does, or compile it yourself with mySQL enabled. "
as what u mention but in which file .php3 should i change it
and change to what please give instruction
thanks in advance

Regards
Routers

Anon

You are great to discover
that silly process and explain to
us,
I have solved that problem which wasted me
much time.