setting more than 1 cookie

Kagey1

Hi all,

You probably get this questions like this a lot, so sorry (couldnt find an answer using search)

I am trying to set 2 cookies right after each other. And it seems as though the last cookie that is set (using setcookie) is the only one that is stored. If i make 3 or 4 setcookie calls (with different cookie names) only the final one is actually stored.

Does anyone know how i can do more than 1 cookie at a time. (i tried the cookie array technique, but again, only the final cookie is set)

thanks for any help

gid

I've been able to set more than 1 cookie at a time with no problems whatsoever. Maybe if you posted a snippet of your code we can help figure out what's going wrong.

Kagey1

ok, here are 2 relevant piece of code:

where i create the cookies:

setcookie('board[name]', $_REQUEST['name'], time()+3600, "/");
setcookie('board[email]', $_REQUEST['email'], time()+3600, "/");

where i retrieve the cookies:

echo <<<ENDOFBODY
//...
<tr>
    <td>Your Name:</td>
    <td><input type="text" name="name" size="30" value="{$_COOKIE[board][name]}" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Your E-mail Address:</td>
    <td><input type="text" name="email" size="30" value="{$_COOKIE[board][email]}" /></td>
</tr>
// ...
ENDOFBODY;

something appears in the email value, but not the name. if i comment out the email setcookie, then something appears in name and the old email value is displayed.

weird no?

gid

setcookie('board[name]', $_REQUEST['name'], time()+3600, "/");

This will try to create a cookie called 'board[name]' You probably don't want to []'s in your cookie name. Or else, you might have meant:

setcookie($board['name'], $_REQUEST['name'], time()+3600, "/");

perhaps?

Kagey1

no, it creates a cookie array board with an element name. like i said, the last cookie actually created properly, its just that everything before the last cookie is no created. I get the same result even if i use 2 normal non-array names for the cookies.

gid

bizarre, maybe it's a php bug, but I'm almost sure I would have run into it if it was, as I set 2 cookies all time with numberous sites? What version of php and what webserver are you running? Maybe it's a OS/webserver specific issue? I dunno.

Kagey1

im running apache2 on win2k with php 4.2.1

I does seem really odd doesnt it.

gid

well looking at bugs.php.net it looks like there are some apache2 related setcookie bugs, maybe you found another one that hasn't been reported yet?

Try this test case: loading the first time will show null values, the second time should show the values in the cookies after they have been set. (it's annoying the the php block tag for vbulletin puts in extra linefeeds, so I put in code)

<?

setcookie('OMG_C1', 'First Cookie');
setcookie('OMG_C2', 'Second Cookie');


echo "OMG_C1=". $_COOKIE['OMG_C1'] ."<br>\n";
echo "OMG_C2=". $_COOKIE['OMG_C2'] ."<br>\n";

?>

Kagey1

and we get the following:

OMG_C1=
OMG_C2=Second Cookie

after multiple refreshes also.

then just to further test my theory, i commented out the second cookie set. and what do you know? after 2 refreshes (1 to set the cookie, then one to view it):

OMG_C1=First Cookie
OMG_C2=Second Cookie

So the second cookie retained its value from before, and the first cookie was set because it was the last setcookie call (and the only one).

so what does that mean?

gid

It means something weird is going on. It worked as expected for me. Try upgrading php to 4.2.3 first.

If you still get this behavior after intalling and testing against the latest php and apache2 (if there's a newer one), file a bug report.

Kagey1

ok, thanks for your help man.