Sanity check

[rogair]

I'm writing some scripts to handle an affiliate program. The cart I built already deals.

So I have a page with
if($afid) {
setcookie("afidc","$afid");
setcookie("afrefer","$HTTP_REFERER");
}

So it tracks an affiliate sale. This works fine, now I add another if:
if(empty($afidc)) {
if($afid) {
setcookie("afidc","$afid");
setcookie("afrefer","$HTTP_REFERER");
}
}

Now it stops working, but this same code works on another page. Ack.

So after tinkering a while to figure out what's going on, I remove the outer if so it's back to the original, but lo and behold the original no longer works... ARGGHHH!!! Anyone experience anything like this or see something in the code I am simply missing. I think I'm loosing my mind.

[junebug]

um, is it not setting the cookie? could this be because the cookie is already set from a previous run of the script?

[rogair]

It is not setting the cookie. It is not because the cookie already exists cause I check if the cookie exists and it doesn't. Another thing though, wouldn't the cookie be overwritten by the new setcookie if it did exist.

[rogair]

It was a directory issue. The cookie was being set, just for the wrong directory so I couldn't call if from the webroot. I'm ok now :-P