Cookies

[Anon]

Hey y'all. Wondering if someone can help me out. I've searched high and low and cannot find a solution to my problem. I am trying to get a cookie to work. As long as I stay in the browser and don't shut it down, it works, but if I exit the browser and then open it again, the cookie does not work. Also, if I switch browsers, the cookies is not set. It seems to me that I'm not passing a valid argument for "expire." Here is the code I'm using:

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$time = mktime()+600;
$date = date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time));
$date .= " GMT";

$cookie_name = "temp";
$cookie_value = "on";

setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $date, "/", "", 0);

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Craig

[trooper]

Craig

Two things here:

1) You have set your cookie llifetime of "0" this means that it will die when the browser closes chnage the value to something like 3600 (1 hour)

2) NS and IE store their cokkies in different places, that is why when you change browsers the cookie is not present.

HTH

Gary Mailer

[Anon]

Gary,

Thanks for replying.

When I set "expire" to time()+3600 I am getting the same problem, however. If I close the browser and then open it up again, the cookie is no longer set.

What could the problem be?

Thanks

[trooper]

OK are you sure you don't already have an existing cookie with the same name ?

You'll need to delete the cookie first

Then you should be OK

[Anon]

It is working!!!

Thanks a lot.

Now if only I could solve this OOP Problem.