It won't set the cookie

Anon

Ok, i have gotten so far that first the check is done on wether there is a cookie present (users click a restricted button) and if not go to login.php with this code:

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

Now if I login, using a form with a post action to logincheck.php it check with the following code:

<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or die ("cant connect");
mysql_select_db("databasename") or die ("cant change");
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$Username'") or die ("cant do it");
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
{
if ($row['Password']==$Password)
{
$pw=($row["Password"]==$Password);
SetCookie("DFOLogin", "$pw", 0);
header ("location: securepages.htm");
}
else
header ("location: login.php");
}

It logs the user in, that works, but it doesn't set a cookie, when I click the restricted area button again it goes to the login.php again while it should directly go to the securepages.htm,

And well, it doesn't...what am i doing wrong here...

Help plz..and thx in advance

kpmonroe

try this,

<?php
if(!isset($DFOLogin)){
header ("location: login.php");
}
else(
header ("location: securepages.htm");
)
?>

<?php

$hostName = "local";
$userName = "username";
$passWord = "password";
$databaseName = "myDB";
$tableName = "members";

$link=mysql_connect($hostName, $userName, $passWord);
$db = mysql_select_db($databaseName, $link);

$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE username='$Username'") or die ("cant do it");

$row = mysql_fetch_object($result);
while (($row = fetch_object($result))){
$userID = $row->username;
$password = $row->password;
}

if($password == $Password){
SetCookie("DFOLogin", "$password", 0);
header ("location: securepages.htm");
}
else{
header ("location: login.php");
}

Anon

ok, this seems to work BUT I can't find any cookies set on my machine....watz with that?

And something else, I set the time to 0, this means on browserclose the cookie is gone right?

And what should the code be if I want it set for 20 minutes (i know 1200) but how do I code it right?

Thx for the help sofar

kpmonroe

SetCookie("DFOLogin", "$password", time() + 1200);

I would really recommend that you spend some time digging around in the manual.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/

Anon

Uhm...thx...I did that but it couldn't get me much further...

One thing though...why can't i find any cookies back in my cache where all the rest of my cookies are stored
And thx a lot m8

Anon

never mind....I got it now...the cookie is set 🙂

Thx alot