Cookies in a Jar, but where?

cqball2000

Ok, I'm running php3 on one server and the cookie function works great. I move the same files over to a new server running php4. All my extensions are *.php3. So when I run the same scripts, my cookies aren't there?! What's going on? Does php4 make a difference as well as the .php3 extensions?

Thanks in advance!
Dave

jariizumi

The cookie functions should all function the same regardless of what server you put it on, however, it does have a domain. For example, say Microsoft gives you a cookie when you go to www.microsoft.com. But when you go to www.linux.com, linux.com doesn't see the cookie you got from microsoft.com (just imagine the nightmare 😉

Besides that, all I can think of is that maybe the PHP3 extension is being processed by another version of PHP? That's a far-fetched thing to say, but I would recommed at any rate to switch over to the .PHP extensions.

cqball2000

Thanks Josh,

I thought maybe it's the php extensions. Is there an easy way to change all the extension from php3 to php on the fly? I know how to change the references inside the files, it's the extensions of the files I'm not too sure about.

Thanks!
Dave

Anon

Just to say, .php extentions work for PHP3 and 4, I use PHP3 and .php works fine, I also have access to php4, where they also work fine.

As for changing them all at once?
The best I can suggest is just getting confortable :-( I once had to rename about 400 files and the best way is just go get in a good position where you can easily right cick, rename, ... or whatever method you chose.

Good luck, there may be an automatic way, but I don't know of one :-(

jariizumi

Well, one thing you can do is to go and mount your Linux volume as a Samba/Windows volume, and then map it as a drive, going to DOS (good old DOS 😉 And just doing our lovely
REN .PHP3 .PHP
or something, and if you have case-sensitivity and case-preserve turned off, you get exactly what you want in one command 😉 Works well with MOVE or COPY also.

As to the contents and the links, use any text editor, and do a search and replace for ".php3" to ".php", and that should do it, since anything having to do with .php3 definitely is a filename/url.

cqball2000

I've tried changing the extensions and the cookies still don't work. They work on one server, but not on another. I'm not sure where to go at this point. Any suggestions?

cqball2000

I figured out that one server only supports the following code:

setcookie ("cwmr1a", "$firstn");

Whereas another server supports any of the following code:

setcookie ("cwmr1a", "$firstn");
setcookie ("cwmr1a", $value,time()+3600); / expire in 1 hour /
setcookie ("cwmr1a", $value,time()+3600, "/$cdirectory/", "$cdomain", 1);

Why would this happen. And is there a way to have more than 20 cookies?

Thanks.