Cookie Problem

Anon

Hi-

I am having a problem creating a cookie from a variable value. Here is my code

setcookie("username",$username);

It won't create it for some reason. I've tried setting expire date too. However, when I actually type in a value for the $username it works.

setcookie("username","my_user");

This works! Why won't the other one work? Is it something simple I'm missing?

Thanks for the help
-Andy

Anon

Figured part of it out. I tried it on my local computer running phptriad, it worked fine. When i try i on my server running windowsNT it runs into the problem. Any ideas on why this would happen?

Andy wrote:

Hi-

I am having a problem creating a cookie from a variable value. Here is my code

setcookie("username",$username);

It won't create it for some reason. I've tried setting expire date too. However, when I actually type in a value for the $username it works.

setcookie("username","my_user");

This works! Why won't the other one work? Is it something simple I'm missing?

Thanks for the help
-Andy

Anon

Are you sure $username is set?

How are you checking if it's set, by reading it back on another page (must be on the same domain), or by looking in your cookies folder? If you don't give an expiry date, they expire when the browser is closed down, and aren't stored in your cookies folder at all, just in the browsers memory.

Anon

Figured out the problem. There is a bug in IIS where you can't send a location header and set a cookie at same time. It's a cgi bug. Microsoft has it documented on their site, and i figured out a way around it by doing a html redirect.

-andy