cookie help

scbmx

im setting cookies in the file: portal/pages/index.php
the cookies is being set as:

     setcookie("scbmxrider", "$user", time()+3600, '/portal/');

and im trying to retrieve the cookie data in portal/index.php
im just using:

     if (isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["scbmxrider"])) { blah blah

the problem is the cookie is not being read in portal/index.php, i know it is being set cause i checked the cookies folder on my computer. what am i doing wrong? and what do i need to do to make it read the cookie?

thanks

diego25

Which PHP version do you have? Maybe you should be using $_COOKIE isntead of $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS

Dieog

scbmx

im too lazy to check the version but i tried both and still nothin.

rupertbj

Make sure that the cookies bit is the first thing on your page.

i.e.

<?php
setcookie("scbmxrider", "$user", time()+3600, '/portal/');
?>
<html>
//--etc etc

fnbcprog

Try using this. Using it like this prevents the inevitable quote errors.

$path = "/portal/";
$domain = "your_domain";

setcookie("cookie_name",$access_level,time()+3600,$path,$domain);

scbmx

thanks i got it right now...i used the last two suggestions together and now its reading the cookie.