Cookies & Subdirectory

[ntraenkner]

Ran across something that seems strange to me...

I have a script that uses cookies to authenticate users whenever a script is loaded.
1. user clicks on link, is taken to script.php.

2. In script.php the first line is check($PHP_SELF) that checks the value of HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['nameofmycookie'] the value is decrypted and checked.

note: (The $PHP_SELF is used in case the user doesnt have a cookie, then the script writes a login form for the user with the form action set to the current script).

Well...

I have been running along smoothly until i started writing scripts in a subdirectory of the directory I have all my php scripts (that run well) (i'll call it the document root). As soon as a user using the script in the subdirectory clicks a link to a script in the document root, the cookie disappears.

Any similar experiences? I would like to eventually put my scripts in different directories in case i have to .htaccess restrict by path.

-n

[fahhem]

You probably have set the expire to a certain time or for the session. The session could end unexpectedly becuase of a browser failure.

[ntraenkner]

Something I failed to mention that might have been more help...

The scripts are loaded into frames with a php script that just prints a frameset with source refs to two more php scripts.

once I moved that frameset script to the document root everything runs fine.

Still strange tho.

-n

[Anon]

I have just started to play with cookies today and I think I am experiencing the same thing.

I couldn't read my new cookie until I moved it into the root directory. I originally defined it in a subirectory called "User"

Do cookies have to be defined in the root directory?