setcookie and header

fox1999

Hy to everybody,
i'm trying to set a cookie in a PHP page. At the beginning of the page i have this code:

setcookie("Cookie_SC_Stagione", "$value", time()+2592000);

This work fine but you must refresh page to have cookie updated. So i have found in PHP manual to do a redirect to 'force' cookie update. So i have inserted header and now my code is:

setcookie("Cookie_SC_Stagione", "$value", time()+2592000);

header("Location: [url]http://[/url]".$SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

But now i have a problem with the setcookie. More, it seems that my cookie is no more setted.

Can someone tell me the code i have to insert in my page to do a good setcookie?

TIA

nca

Is it possible to set a cookie before a header?? I am not for sure about that...

rohithmr

try this in ur code. This jus a vodoo coding trick and is usually not the best way to go, BUT HEY as long as it works.....lol

setcookie("Cookie_SC_Stagione", "$value", time()+2592000); 
// if ur used to using $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS 
// instead of $_COOKIE then use that instead.
$_COOKIE['Cookie_SC_Stagione'] = $value;