cookies

[jlory]

Lets say I write a cookie in test.php that stores the variable $username. Later on, when I am viewing test_two.php, I want to see the value of $username, that was written by the cookie in test.php. Is that possible?

[junebug]

yes.

http://www.php.net/cookies

[jlory]

I see the examples at http://www.php.net/cookies I am still having problems....... When I refresh the screen, the value jamie.lory for the login cookie is printed to the screen. That part is ok, however,

<?
$c_email = "jamie.lory";
if ($login == "") {
SetCookie("login", $c_email, Time()+3600);
print "You are now logged in";
}
else
{
echo $login;
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["login"];
}
?>

the problem is; if I go to a different page and try and print $login, nothing happens. Below is my code.

<?
include 'marker.php';
echo $login;
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["login"];
?>

Note: It doesn't seem to work wether I use the include statement or not.

I must be missing something here....

Any help is appreciated.

Jamie

[jlory]

One part of my problem was the location on my page where I had the code that was trying to pull information from the cookie. Of course, I also didn't need to use any kind of include statement.

To solve the problem, I used the code below and placed it in a separate file. I then called the file at the begining of every page where I wanted to have security, by using include 'security.php';

security.php

<?
ob_start();
$cookieinfo = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[user_login];

if (isset ($user_login)) {
print "<div align=right><b><font size=-2 color=#000066> $cookieinfo has successfully logged in</font></b></div>";
}
else {
print "<div align=right><b><font size=-2 color=#CC0000> Warning! You are not logged in, Please Try Again</font></b></div>";

header ("Refresh: 1; url=index.php");
}
?>

Jamie