Opera 7.01 and setcookie()

Ekimus

😕 Being hasty, I put up a site without testing as many browsers as possible. It seems that setcookie() just will not work for me in Opera 7, I don't even receive a prompt from the browser to allow the cookie. Below you will find a sample of the code that I use to set the cookie based upon the users log in information:

        [code=php]setcookie("useralias",$useralias,time+300000000,"/","mydomain.com/fubar");[/code]

I'm assuming it has something to do with Opera stores cookies (in cookie4.dat, oppesed to the standard IE text file), but I've visited many other sites that use cookies with no problem.

Thanks,
Ekimus 🆒

ednark

set_cookie does not actually write anything to the clients computer...

it informs the browser that it wants to set a cookie and hands over the information...

if there is an incompatability its either on how set_cookie talks to opera or how opera stores its cookies internally...

are you sure you have your domain set correctly, and that opera isn't rejecting it on purpose through a filtering rule, or that you haven't accidentally blocked all cookies from your domain?

Ekimus

I wish it was that easy, I've checked my cookie settings, and even re-installed Opera with no luck. The domain may be it, I included it when trying to fix this issue, as it wasn't there before (poor coding to begin with). I've tried 'www.mydomain.com' , 'mydomain.com', 'www.mydomain.com/ch/'....etc...

Interestingly enough, my site initially validates the login, as user specific information(ie: if the users personal inbox has a new message), but the cookie never gets written. 🙁

diego25

The domain should be just the domain, so no 'fubar' in there.

Try removing all the arguments except the first two ones and test your script. Does the cookie get created? If it does, add the third argument. Test again. Then add the fourth argument, test again, until you find out which argument is causing the problem.

Diego

Ekimus

Well, there are a few interesting issues, the cookie never gets written, so a few pages don't accept my login. However, I am still able to access certian pages that execute a user level check before loading. So, I just have to login every single time if I am using Opera, or I could just use IE....