Writing Cookies

[larand]

Hi! I am currently writing a login script and need to implement cookie authentication. here is my problem. I have a form which submits the username and password to a php script which encrypts the strings then compares them with already encrypted information in my database. Depending on the correct matches, the user will be sent to the restricted page or asked to log in again. Now, once the user is logged in, I want to be able to write a cookie on his sytem, containing the encrypted username and password. Now, how do I pass the encrypted username and password from one script to another? That is the only thing stopping me from completing this section of the code!

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,
André
http://www.clubaxxess.com

[Anon]

To pass the encrypted string from script to script, just do a simple key=value pair as you would any other variable. You may want to urlencode it before sending it and the decode it when you are ready to use it.

Use setcookie() to load the cookie to the user's machine. The cookie is automatically urlencoded when you set it and decoded when you access it from the user. It is assigned the same variable name that you gave it inside setcookie().

Just reference the cookie by it's name, encrypt it and compare to your database data.