Session ID

[Anon]

Alrighty, I am new to this but am having a ball learning.

I am trying to get cookies working on my machine. I have mySQl, PWS and PHP4 installed, and am building a shopping cart that users a sessions id to track a users input.

This the script that I have used:

if (!isset($user_id)) {

$token = md5(uniqid(rand()));

setcookie("user_id",$token,time()+86400,"/","myname.com");

What I am trying to ascertain is what should the "myname", the host corrsepond to if the server is local? Should it be localhost or what...

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, I will look now fully. Thanks for any assistance.

Mark

[matto]

I haven't tried to specify a domain yet, but the manual says there must be a leading dot:

setcookie ("TestCookie", "", time() - 3600, "/~rasmus/", ".utoronto.ca",1);

perhaps it's that easy. 😉

[hiasl]

simply set the cookie without specifying a domain, it will be set to the domain you're working on:

setcookie(unique_id, $unique_id,"","/");

That's it,
Matthias