setcookie and then header?

[Anon]

Here's my dillema:

I have a form based login page (index.php):

<form action="login_action.php?login=check" method="post>

it hits login_action.php to check for a valid username/password. No big deal.

After it validates, I want to set a cookie and redirect the user back to index.php. Here is how I am trying (and failing) to do it now:

setcookie ('userID',$user['ID'],time()+3600);
header ("location: index.php?login=success&begin=true");

The cookie is set, but it does not redirect. What would be the correct way of doing what I am trying to accomplish?

Thanks in advance,
Brian

[Anon]

I think the location header requires a full url, not a relative one. For example, "http://www.mysite.com/index.php" as opposed to just "/index.php."

Try using the server environment variable $HTTP_HOST if you want to keep from hardcoding your domain name in your code. (Run the function phpinfo() for a list of other preset variables that could help you out here.)

Lacey