setcookie problem

junebug

i have a very strange problem with the setcookie function. basically, i set a cookie on a users machine to make sure that cookies are enabled. this is what it looks like:

if(!$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['cookieCheck'])
setcookie('cookiecheck', '1');

so this should make it load on the first view of the page and then not load again. but on the first view of the page it does not load. i will try to login and i get a message saying my cookies are not enabled. but if i reload it or login again there is no problem.

anyone with any help about why this is happening would be great. thanks in advance

jc94062

Well by the looks of it your setting the cookie after checking for it...

I'm not positive here but it looks like the first time you load the page theres no cookie, as soon as it tells you that however the PHP script reaches the setcookie command, sets the cookie, so when you load it again it IS set...

What are you trying to use them for?

To check they work I'd just write a two test pages...

setcookie.php
<?
setcookie('MrCookie', 'value');
?>

checkcookie.php
<?
if (isset($MrCookie)) {
echo "Cookies working!";
}
?>

Hope that helps

Anon

you are using windows with the cgi module i bet. there is a bug.

Anon

Chris, If I'm not mistaken, a cookie set on one page isn't actually available until the next page is loaded. I've tried setting a cookie on a page and referring to it on the same page and it never works. However, referring to in on the next page loaded works fine. That may be the problem, if I'm not wrong about that.

jc94062

Use phpinfo() to find when its loaded, load page1 and see if it is really set.

Anon

Hey.. Is there a bug for the Win version of PHP 4.xxx (the latest) for setcookie. Cause my scripts work perfectly on our linux boxes... What is the deal???

Anon

You cannot send HTTP header information after regular html/php output has been loaded onto the page. The setcookie() function relies on sending HTTP header info, but that won't be sent until you leave the page and so your cookie won't be available until you reload the page or move on to another page.

Hope this helps