Cookies and Numbers

Anon

Hi
I'm writing an script to clone the features of sites like hotornot.com and rankpeople.com. I am having trouble setting cookies for numbers.

I have a form where you input the Maximum age, and minimum age. here is the html coding for the maximum form.

Here is the code for cookieset.php:
<code>
<?
setcookie($name, $value) or die("could not set/reset cookies");

<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=<?=$HTTP_REFERER ?>">
<title> Cookie Updater </title>
</head>

</code>

Can anybody suggest why this won't work, or am I making a stupid mistake?

Anon

Well, you have some mistakes in your HTML form :

</code>

and then after :

(the $maxage var. contains what the user
have type in the form field)

Anon

Actually I'm using cookieset.php for the user based Controls. This means that I want it to be able to define what the cookie name is in the url. I don't want to tie the setcookie command down to maxage. It's supposed to perform the functions of hotornot.com or rankpeople.com

Take a look at http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~robro/downloads/urlphonze

or to look at the code
http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~robro/downloads/urlphonze.tgz

Anon

Ok, I've not understand the first time what you intend to do, sorry

well,
have you check $name & $value value ?
Are they correct ?

May be a question of scope of variables not
defined inside that function ?

If they are defined, is the cookie ok
on the client side ? (ie : the browser ok
to store cookies ?)

Anon

Thanks for all your help Herve. As it happens my cookies were fine, when I tried to call them from an other script they failed because I hadn't made them global.