Cookie Help Needed

[Anon]

Ok here's wha happend... I had coded a few php scripts that ran on apache/MySQL and eveyything worked fine....

Now I'm running on IIS 5.0 and MSSQL 7.0 and for some weird reason... my setcookie will NOT work anymore!?!?

here's what I have:

setcookie ("TestCookie", "hello");

(I didn't put a time because I want it valid only while the browser is open.)

I've tried even adding the other parameters but nothing is working...

TIA,
Swixy

[[deleted]]

The setcookie doesn't work or you can't read the cookie wherer you used to be able to read the cookie?

Check the php.ini to see how cookie vars are handles by your new php setup. They can be set to become globals, or they can be stored in just $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS.

[Anon]

the set cookie doesn't work.. I've found a work-around solution but it's kinda lame..

it use to be something like :
setcookie("TestCookie", "someinfo");
header("Location: main.php");

Now it's like:
setcookie("TestCookie", "someinfo");
?>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=main.php">
<?php

But that's cheap... The reason I had to do it that way is because if I have a header after the setcookie... the cookie never gets set, but once I removed the header and did the html equivalent then it works fine...

Anyone have any ideas on how to get it working like I had it before?

[Anon]

Try it!
setcookie("TestCookie", "someinfo");
header("Refresh:0 ;url=main.php");