Header problems

[pablodelapena]

Alright, im having problems using headers.

In a login script im using i need to set some cookies.
Although ym problem is that when i put in the redirect coding the cookies are not set!!

what im doing is this

	//CONFIGURATION FOR USER PABLO
	$whoareyou = 'pablo';
	$permission = 'mod';
	$permissionbraemar = 'true';
	//END CONFIGURATION
	setcookie ("WhoAreYou", $whoareyou,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
	setcookie ("permission", $permission,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
	setcookie ("permissionsbraemar", $permissionbraemar,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */

this all works very well. the cookies are set and alls hunky-dory.

BUT when i put this tag in like so

	//CONFIGURATION FOR USER PABLO
	$whoareyou = 'pablo';
	$permission = 'mod';
	$permissionbraemar = 'true';
	//END CONFIGURATION
	setcookie ("WhoAreYou", $whoareyou,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
	setcookie ("permission", $permission,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
	setcookie ("permissionsbraemar", $permissionbraemar,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
	header("location: loggedin.php");

it all screws up. I even tried putting the header locationn bit before setting the cookies as i think i heard somewhere that PHP4 works backwards?😕 That did work either.

When i tried using ob_flsuh(); and ob_end_flush(); and putting the header location after ob_end_flush(); it gave me the error that i cant send output headers.

Im VERY confused as when i dont have the redirect thing it all wors fine, its when they are tpogether!

Im a PHP beginner so ANY help would be appreciated

[JakesSA]

try something like this:

function authenticate($whoareyou, $permission, $permissionbraemar)
  {
     $whoareyou = 'pablo';
    $permission = 'mod';
    $permissionbraemar = 'true';
    //END CONFIGURATION
    setcookie ("WhoAreYou", $whoareyou,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
    setcookie ("permission", $permission,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */
    setcookie ("permissionsbraemar", $permissionbraemar,time ()+3600);  /* expire in 1 hour */

}

$authenicatedUser = authenticate($whoareyou, $permission, $permissionbraemar)

if($authenicatedUser = true)
  {
header("Location:Send me here");
  }
else
  {
 print "do something else";
  }

You probalby authenticating through a certain method...so stick it whole authentication into a function, if true send header else return false.

[pablodelapena]

cheers, but im getting a parse error now on line 16:s i dont see whats wrong though??

[pablodelapena]

was missing a ';' but now thats all done and dusted it redirects, but still no cookies are set

[JakesSA]

Note: you have to set your biscuts befor any header information is sent.

[kriek]

Trust me if you use output buffering with ob_start() and ob_end_flush() properly you can place headers and content in any order you want to. Output buffering (PHP 4.0) was originally designed to solve HTTP header errors.

<?php ob_start(); 

// entire script, code, or page here

ob_end_flush(); ?>

Although ob_end_flush() isn't needed in MOST cases because it is called automatically at the end of script execution by PHP itself when output buffering is turned on either in the php.ini or by calling ob_start(). I should also mention that Output buffers are stackable, that is, you may call ob_start() while another ob_start() is active. Just make sure that you call ob_end_flush() the appropriate number of times. If multiple output callback functions are active, output is being filtered sequentially through each of them in nesting order.

[barand]

If you are using IIS or PWS there is a 'feature' in those that does not allow cookies with redirection.

In the past I've sent the cookies thrn displayed a confirmation message with a link to where I originally wanted to redirect.

hth