Settings cookies

tornado

Everytime I set multiple cookies, only the last cookie is saved. For example the following:

setcookie("test1","value1", time()+7200, "/", "", 0);
setcookie("test2","value2", time()+7200, "/", "", 0);

only "test2" is saved and I cant retrieve a value for "test1" because its non-existant.

Why does this happen?

The output of the above 2 lines of code is:

test2
value2
127.0.0.1/
1024
1263178880
29508720
2278802912
29508703
*

piersk

I read somewhere (I think it was on one of these forums before it all got changed) that this was a known bug and you should set a "control cookie" (ie one that you're not going to use) before the ones that you ACTUALLY want.

tornado

What do you mean by the "control cookie". How would I go about setting one up?

Do you have any possible references to places that could assist me with this problem?

Thank you.

piersk

What I meant by "control cookie" is a cookie that you have set, but you dont use it for anything...

dannys

Are you, by any chance, using Apache2? Multiple cookies is broken in PHP + Apache2 though it has already been fixed in PHP4.3-dev

tornado

The following quote comes from
"http://php.benscom.com/manual/en/function.setcookie.php"

"setcookie("login[username]",$_POST['username']);

setcookie("login[session]",$token);

On a linux apache2 host, this sets two cookie parts, as desired.
On a windows apache2 host, it sets login[session] ONLY. Apparently, the
latter cookie overwrites the former in this situation.
"

This is the exact problem that I'm having where the 2nd cookie is overriding the first.

Thought I would make another post for clarification incase anyone is confused.

tornado

Dannys:

I am using the following:

Win2k Server
Apache 2.0.39
PHP 4.2.2

I haven't looked at PHP4.3-dev yet, is it released yet?
I'm going to check for it now.

dannys

I just set 1 cookie anyway - a serialised array. It's never failed me yet.

$data=Array('test1'=>'value1','test2'=>'value2');
setcookie("test",serialize($data),time()+7200, "/", "", 0);

PHP4.3 is in a beta state atm - it's only available via cvs (though I think there's a link to a build with the new zend engine on the php.net new page)

tornado

Serialised arrays work for me too, but it still doesn't answer the questions on why multiple setcookies, is failing.

It apparently appears to be a windows type thing, so maybe I've gotta stick to the serialised array versions.

aldeba79

finally managed to find this thread 🙁

been trying to get multiple cookies working ;(

can get it fixed here
http://snaps.php.net/
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18856