Time on cookie ?

Anon

Hello!

Before I added "time() + 60" this cookie was working fine, and the cookie name was printed, but after adding the time limit the cookiename is not printed. (I am testing before the time limit of one minute expires.
(It is not showing on page2 ( <?php echo "$testcookie"; ?> ) any longer either ;-(

Thanks in advance.

Klas

<?php
setcookie("testcookie", "The Cookie2!!!", time() + 60);
?>

<title>Page 1 </title>
<body>

Cookie name :

<?php echo "$testcookie"; ?>

Go to <A HREF="page2.php"> Page 2</A>

</body>

retoknaak

Are you sure to have no text going out before setting the cookie?
Not even a line break before the <?php ?

Anon

Yes, I am ;-(

The first thing is the "<", not even a " " or a linebreak is before

The first lines is

<?php
setcookie("testcookie", "The Cookie2!!!", time() + 60);
?>

Klas

retoknaak

have you reloaded the page? You talked about page2, so I guess you even changed page....

Anon

Hi! :-)

I reload on page 2 in order to check if the cookie is there or goes away. (but it is never there now, after I added the time thing)

Klas

This is Page 1 (labb5.php)

<?php
setcookie("testcookie", "The Cookie2!!!", time() + 60);
?>

<title>Page 1 </title>
<body>

Cookie name :

<?php echo "$testcookie"; ?>

Go to <A HREF="labb5-2.php"> Page 2</A>

</body>

And this is page 2 (labb5-2.php)

<title>Page 2</title>
<body>

Page 2
Cookie name :

<?php echo "$testcookie"; ?>

</body>

Anon

I friend told me I have to set the actual time, so it knows 60 seconds from what, anyone know how please?

Klas

retoknaak

I am using a code like this and it works:

$EXPIRE_DATE = 604800;

// Cookies Expiration date (second). 86400s=24h 604800=1 Week

setcookie("visited", $count, time()+$EXPIRE_DATE , "/aget_lo/", "www.scout.ch");

A problem I had was that the server is also called www.pfadi.ch and my browser was istructed to accept only cookies to be sent back to the same server. Solution: I send 2 cookies, one with pfadi and the other with scout.
Another problem could maybe be that you already set a cookie that is not expired yet. In this case you could delete the cookie by hand in your browser...