Setting cookie to Root

netizen

Hey,

I'm writing a user tracking system for a shopping site. It will first check on the cookie from their prior visit, but if they enter through a page not that of the main page on the root directory and they don't have a cookie set, I want to create a user ID and set a cookie, but one that will be recognized across the whole site. So how do I do that? I tried:

SetCookie("userID",$userID,$settime,"/","my.com");

seems like that will work, but I guess I'm missing something.

Any Help is appreciated.

Ron

Anon

seems like that will work,
and whats wrong if it seems to work ??

netizen

I meant it seems like it WOULD work. It doesn't. It sets the cookie to whatever directory it is in. I just don't want to set the same cookie for a dozen pages.

Ron

Anon

hmmm I haven't done much with cookies yet, but i never expierienced the problem you describe... have you set the PATH parameter ?? or have you set the DOMAIN Paramter to something different then your Page ??? Both of the parameters are optional ... i never set them (thats probably not very "secure" ...)
hope that helps
Rob

netizen

I tried to set the path to the root, but when I did, it wouldn't set the cookie. So I guess I must be setting it wrong.

setcookie(userID,$userID,$settime,"/","my.com");

Ron

Anon

I set 'em that way:
setcookie(userID,$userID,$settime,"","",0);
and they work ...

cya Rob