eating cookies

[Anon]

I'm programming an opinion poll. This is my first object oriented php program, but that's irrelivant. The poll has two ways to display, in form mode where you vote on the answers to the question and the result mode where it displays the number of votes in a nice table. I have three functions in my poll class to do this, display_question() (the one that displays it as a form), display_results() (the one that displays the results), and display_poll() (this one displays the results if the cookie is set, otherwise displays the form). The poll has a name, say, foo. When you vote, is sees if the cookie called MicahPollCookie exists and has the value foo. If it doesn't, it increments the votes for the option chosen and does all the happy stuff. If it does, then it doesn't increment the votes and tells you you've already voted. I know my display_question() and display_results() functions work fine. My display_poll() function does the same thing as when you vote, checks for the cookie to exist and have the right value, and if it does shows the results, otherwise the form. This one isn't working. It always shows the form. I know the cookie's working because it doesn't let me vote again. I have pollclass.php, which has the poll class (with those 3 functions in it) and I have vote.php, which is what the action to the form is when you vote. Vote.php sets the cookie when you vote, and it checks for the cookie before it increments it, and it all works fine. The pollclass.php doesn't even seem to know that the cookie exists. Any enlightenment?

[Anon]

1. Are the files vote.php and pollclass.php in the same directory? If not, look at the arguments of setcookie, and you'll see one that you can set the path.

2. Did you tell PHP that you're trying to access the global cookie variable?

Diego

[Anon]

1. They're in the same directory. My directory structure is a little weird though, everything is in a /poll directory, and it's all included from the / directory. So just in case, I tried setting the path to "/", which should let any directory past that have access to the cookie, according to a post on php.net.

2. What do you mean? I don't have access to the server myself, but I did check and make sure that the register_globals flag is set.

[Anon]

2. In the class, the function (aka method) won't have access to the cookie variable unless you tell PHP that you want to use the global cookie variable, i.e.

class poll {
function something() {
global $cookie_Var; // did u write this?
print $cookie_Var;
}
}

Diego