how long does a session stay?

[Anon]

Hi,
ok i use a session to reg a variable on one page(mywebsite)
then i take customer to another site for payment. Then they come back to mywebsite.
Now i see the SID in the url so i know it was created. But when i try to call the variables i get nothing. Do i lose the session when i go to another site?

If so can i use a cookie to call the variables i need?

let say something like $username.
how would i use a cookie for this?
Thank you very much for any help.

[Anon]

setcookie("username", $username);

Diego

[Anon]

ok the cookie is being made i set my broswer to tell me so but when i call it i get nothing.

using

echo $username;

is this good enough?
thanks again Diego 🙂

[troinfo]

fixed it, for some reason I need --> '', '/', 'mydomain.com' in the setcookie statement.

For all

setcookie('string', string, '', '/', 'mydomain.com')

one last question.

if I have:
setcookie('string1', string1, '', '/', 'mydomain.com')
setcookie('string2', string2, '', '/', 'mydomain.com')
setcookie('string3', string3, '', '/', 'mydomain.com')

does this make three cookies or one cookie?
if it makes three cookies how do I get it all into one cookie.

Thanks

[Anon]

Use associative array to store all vars, then set one cookie.