Setting a cookie AND redirecting

Anon

I'm trying to set a cookie and at the same time redirect the browser with a header('location: url.php'); but if I put the redirect there it just doesn't work, the cookie doesn't get written.
Right now I'm using this line to redirect, but it's rather ugly and I don't really like it.

echo '<body onload="window.location = \'core.php?page=poll&action=history&id='.$id.'\'"></body>';

Any ideas on how to do it?

crimaniak

Did you try redirect by META tag?

nigel_belanger

Ok, I am having a somewhat similar issue: I can set a cookie, and delete the cookie - however, when I want to redirect after deleting the cookie - it will go into a loop. My workaround is ugly, but it's a link to the mainpage after the cookie is deleted.

Erik, I will give you the code that I am using, but note that I am using PHP as a script in Apache NOT as a module.

Anyhow, here is the code to login and set the cookie...

index.php:

	<?php
	if (isset($id)) {
	echo "Welcome, $id";
	} else {
	echo "Not Logged On";
	}
	?>

<?PHP

// check to see if the user has attempted a login

if (@$login) {

$query="select userid,login_name,login_password from users where login_name='$login_name'";
$result=mysql_query($query);

	 if (mysql_num_rows($result)) {
	 @$userid=mysql_result($result,0,userid);
	 @$password = mysql_result($result,0,login_password);
	 @$user_id = mysql_result($result,0,login_name);

	 // set the cookie
	$id="$user_id";
	$exp["cookielife"] = 14400;
	$expire=time()+$exp["cookielife"];
	setcookie("id",$id,$expire,"/","");


	 echo "<br><br><br><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000080\"

size=\"1\"><center>... Logging in now ...</center></font>";
?>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="2;URL=index.php">
<?php

	 }else{

$error = 1;
$error_message = "<center><br><br><br><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000080\" size=\"3\">I'm sorry, but I couldn't find <strong>$login_name</strong> in the system. <br><br>Please make sure you enter your username<br>correctly and <a href=\"login.php\">try again.</a></font></center>";
echo $error_message;

	 }

}else{

At this point, we insert the form, post method, posting to $PHP_SELF and then end the code block:

<?php

}

If the user is logged in, I provided a link to logout where as it links to: logout.php?action=logout

logout.php

<?php

// logout and reset cookie

if ($action="logout")
{
echo "You are now logged out, ";
$exp["cookielife"] = 14400;
$expired=time() - $exp["cookielife"];
setcookie("id","",$expired,"/","");
echo "Click <a href=\"index.php\">here</a> to return";
return;
}

If you or anyone has a suggestion for me to redirect the user w/o using the href, plz let me know - I'm going to try the location method and see what happens!

-n

nigel_belanger

I amend the previous post snippet for logout.php:

use the following code and it will log you out AND redirect in 2 seconds:

<?php

// logout and reset cookie

if ($action="logout")
{
echo "You are now logged out, ";
$exp["cookielife"] = 14400;
$expired=time() - $exp["cookielife"];
setcookie("id","",$expired,"/","");
//echo "Click <a href=\"index.php\">here</a> to return";
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"2;URL=index.php\">";
continue;
}

-n