Cookie Problem

[Anon]

When using

setcookie("cookiename","cookievalue");

i get the error message:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /cookie.php:5) in /cookie.php on line 34

and the cookie is not set

What am i doing wrong? and how can i fix this?

Thanks

[Anon]

check your program, u must have echoed some output or u must have included some file which contains blank spaces which are being sent to browser.so for setting cookie no output to be send to browser.
this will solve ur error..
all the best!!

[Anon]

Cookies have to be the first thing in your program that gets sent to the browser, including blank spaces. What I did (I've got a login routine that uses cookies) was separate the entire routine into different files:

login.php3 - enter name/pass
check.php3 - check the name/pass against db (can be done in login.php3)
setcookie.php3 - sets the cookie
content.php3 - whatever you're trying to login to

so setcookie.php3 should look like this:
<?php
setcookie("cookiename", "$cookieval", time()+14400, "/", "www.mydomain.com", 0);

and then to redirect, right underneath that...
header(location: /content.php3);
?>

thats how I did it, anyway.

good luck,
--Intaglio
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