PHP and Cookies

hurtbadly

I'm having a problem with this. I just started using this and according to everything I read, PHP and Cookies is really easy. So I am hoping this is a simple question.

Here is my setcookie():

setcookie("username", "$row[0]", time() + (14*86400), "/", "subdomain.domain.com", 1);

Here is the result when I try and print through using the cookie with echo "$username"; :

$username

PHP isn't recongnizing the cookie or something...anyone have any ideas?

jcornett

3 thoughts come to mind...

1) You are not on a secure link when accessing the cookie. (The "1" at the end of the setcookie is only transmitted over a secure HTTPS connection)

2) $row[0] is an empty string, make sure this variable is being set correctly.

3) PHP is not automatically populating cookie variables (what version of PHP are you using?)... Try using this instead:

echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[username];

In fact, using this sort of convention is generally accepted as good coding practice. (Using the globals array to access variables in cookies, and get/post variables).

Hope this helps!

John Cornett
Senior Development Engineer
Web Teks, Inc.
http://www.web-teks.com

hurtbadly

Thanks a lot! I was using PHP 3 and I guess that it doesn't autmatically create the variables. This is fantastic because this was holding back the entire project I was working on.

Thanks again!

jcornett

My pleasure. 🙂

John Cornett