RE: setting cookies and retrieving them

[Anon]

James wrote:

For the setcookie, set the value as $pw or something, and then define $pw before setting the cookie, don't try to set a value like that.

To time out on browser close, just don't set a time value.

My reply:

Ok, I have done that and this is what I try to do..I am calling the page where it checks wether the cookie present, if not go to login, if so go on
This is the check:

<?php
if ($cookiename=="$pw")
{
header ("location: proceed.htm");
}
else
{
header ("location: login.php");
}
?>

But this gives a parse error...am i blind cause I can't seem to find the error

I have tried several versions...to figure out the error but can't find it....once it seemed to go but it then just showed the proceed.htm, while the login wasn't even done, so no cookie had been set

Help plz (and thanks for the replies so far)

[Anon]

If I understand your problem correctly:

say you have a cookie called someCookie and assuming you've set it properly, you would retrieve it and check it as follows

$someValue = HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['someCookie'];
if (isset($someValue) AND $someValue == $pw) {
header("Location: proceed.htm");
}
else { // $someValue is neither set (no contents) or someValue did not equal $pw
header("Location: login.htm");
}

remember the syntax for header is header("Location: blah.htm") where it is enclosed in quotes.

Hope that helps