Cookie Question

[Anon]

Hey guys,
The question is this. In php, I want the user to fill out a form for login. Meaning username and password. Once they fill out that username text box, I want it to then put that username in a cookie. So next time they go to that screen the cookie is called up and the username is pre-filled. How do I do this?

Please help!

[Anon]

Read the manual regarding sessions and cookies...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

You might also want to look at the possibility of integratining a bit of Javascript into the page. However this would probably be used only for non-secure stuff. (ie I wouldnt send passwords over this way, but mabye user names and prefill info for an non secure form like this billboard 🙂 ).

Hope that helps.

[alcapone]

good help, Nashirak 🙂 send to read f** man's - is that the way to do it?
Brian, what you need is to set a usual cookie with the 'setcookie' command. So it looks like this:
$username=$HTTP_POST_VARS["username"];
setcookie("username", "$username", time()+600);
so this will set a cookie on 10 minutes - time in seconds.
Afterall you can call your cookie like this:
$nickname=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["username"];

cheers,
AlCapone