cookies

Anon

I'm having a bit of trouble getting cookies to work for my website. I use the following line as one of the lines that set's a cookie:

setcookie("greetname",trim($newgreetname),0,"",".techcentral.ca",1);

And from what I understand, at any page on my website, I should be able to:

<?PHP print $greetname; ?>

and the cookie's value should be displayed... but I'm not getting anything.

Cookies are enabled on my broser.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

Anon

You need to set the time that the cookie should be valid for.
Try this:
$expire = time() + 360024365;
setcookie("greetname",trim($newgreetname),$expire,"/",".techcentral.ca");

Also, an easier to print the value of the cookie is simply
<?=$newgreetname?> anywhere in your html

Anon

I tried what you suggested, and it didn't work either...

The documentation for setcookie() said to put a '0' to bypass that parameter... hmm.

Is a cookie's value available for any page to display? Or do you need to specifically extract the value from the cookie?

Anon

i don't hink you can throw functions into cookies. i know they need to be at the very* begining of the file. no white space. probably get processed before any preprocessing 😉 here's a quick cooks tut: http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/feedback.php

Anon

Even taking the functions out they still didn't work... no worries though, I think I got it to work.

Before I was using this format of the function:

$expTime = time() 24 365;
setcookie("LinuxToday",$LinuxToday,$expTime,"/",".techcentral.ca",0);

Then I changed the cookie so that this is what it looked like:

$expTime = time() 24 365;
setcookie("LinuxToday",$LinuxToday,$expTime);

And it seems to store the information properly... go figure... so if that's the only way it'll work, why does the documentation contain an additional 3 parameters?

Mike