COOKIES not being set

[tatjana]

It seems that my cookie is not being set on my Live server as I cannot retrieve any values from it.

I have the following code:

setcookie($cookieName,base64_encode($dataE),time() + 3600,cookiePath,cookieDomain)

where cookiePath is defined as "/"; cookieDomain as "xxxxxx.co.uk"

My php pages are split between a secure and non-secure server. the secure address is "secure.xxxxxx.co.uk" and non-secure is "xxxxxx.co.uk".
First question : is the cookieDomain correct?

Secondly, do I need the path? On my development server, I have removed it as it was causing problems with resetting my cookie but it still exists on Live.

[rIkLuNd]

What method did you use to get the cookie info?

[tatjana]

this is part of the code that extracts the cookie values- I didn't write it though but it works fine on my dev machine!

$dataE = $_COOKIE[cookieName];

if ($dataE != "")
{
$data = base64_decode($dataE);
}

if ($cookieOK == true & $data != "")
{
$cArray = split("#",$data);

      $firstItem = true;
      $totalCost = 0;

      $calcJavascript = "totalCost=0;";

      foreach ($cArray as $good) /* Loop A */
      {
        $item = split(":",$good);

        $quantField = sprintf("qty%d",$item[0]);
        if (isset($_GET))
        {
          if (isset($_GET[$quantField]))
          {
            $item[6] = $_GET[$quantField];
            $changeCookie = 1;
          }
        }

        $totalCost += $item[5] * $item[6];
      }

}

[rIkLuNd]

The malfunction might lie on the server. If it's using an old version of php, then you can't use $COOKIE, $GET and so on, and insted you have to use $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS and $HTTP_GET_VARS. Then the code would look like this:

<?php

$dataE = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['cookieName']; 


if ($dataE != "") 
{ 
$data = base64_decode($dataE); 
} 


if ($cookieOK == true & $data != "") 
{ 
$cArray = split("#",$data); 

$firstItem = true; 
$totalCost = 0; 

$calcJavascript = "totalCost=0;"; 

foreach ($cArray as $good) /* Loop A */ 
{ 
$item = split(":",$good); 

$quantField = sprintf("qty%d",$item[0]); 
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS)) 
{ 
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['quantField'])) 
{ 
$item[6] = $HTTP_GET_VARS['quantField']; 
$changeCookie = 1; 
} 
} 

$totalCost += $item[5] * $item[6]; 
} 
}

?>

[tatjana]

We are using $GET and $POST in other php code and it all works ok so I don't think this is the problem.
I am going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, I;ll try changing everything to HTTP_....

thanks for your help

p.s I forgot to say that we are on version 4.1.2 on Live and 4.2.2 on Dev