Crumbling Cookies..plz help

[Anon]

I’m running smack into a problem when I try to set a cookie, and then redirect.

For example:

setcookie ("a", "$a", time() + 14400);
setcookie ("b", "$b", time() + 14400);
redirect_function("www.url.com");

I’ve run tests, and the cookie is being set as I can call it from the page, if I “//” the redirect function, but when I get passed to the new page where I actually want to use the cookie values, they seam to have disappeared in the redirect?

Has anyone ever had a similar problem? I’d love an answer since I’m almost pulling out hair...

I’m ultimately doing a user validation / authentication, are cookies the best method, or should they be combine with sessions? Or is there a better method all together, third party solutions, etc?

Any help will be appreciated greatly.

Bye for now, and thanks. !

[colbec]

Setcookie has a couple of optional parameters that may be of use here. One is to define the website with which the cookie is associated. If you are redirecting to a completely different web address then the new address will not be able to use the cookie. The other is the directory for which the cookie is valid. If you are redirecting to a different directory and this param is not "/" then this may be the reason the cookie is not seen.