Problems with setcookie and header

Anon

I have a php page which tries to set a cookie and go to another page using redirection.

This is the exact code :

<?php
setcookie("id","1",time()+900,"/","",0);
header("Location: http://abc.com/def.htm");
?>

this code does neither sets the cookie nor traverses to the other page. if only the setcookie command is there however, the cookie is set. but i am unable to redirect to another page.

This page does not contain html, but only the above statements.

Please help.

Anon

i tried your code and checked on my server it is working fine.You must be including something before this code tell me the error which u are getting may be that will help to solve the problem

Teena

stevieb

Theres a few bugs in the setcookie() functions and it tends to throw loads of weird errors.

I just wrote my own CookieSet() function thats a bit like this:

function CookieSet($name,$value,$expires)
{
$expires=7;
$exp= time() + ( $expires * 86400 );
$exp=strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S", $exp);
$exp="$exp GMT";

header("Set-Cookie: $name=$value;expires=$exp;");
}

This uses the PHP header function and its much more reliable. It obviously needs a lot more work, but the basics are there and it works well.

Hope this helps

--
steve

www.2404.co.uk

Anon

<?php
setcookie("id","1",time()+900,"/","",0);
print("<script>location='http://192.168.20.41/home/inputheadlines.html'</script>");
?>

this seems to work now. my only problem was with respect to the redirection after setting the cookie. this is the only redirection it is behaving properly to ! 🙂

srikanth

Anon

oh right...

I had a similar problem when i set a cookie and then used javascipt to refresh the page. The page would reload on some computers browsers but not others, despite them being the same version.

I fixed it (today actually..) by using the PHP function header()

<?
header("Location: $location");
?>

hope this is more helpful 😉

steve