Cookies Problem

spyderman

Hello,

I'm having problems setting/reading cookies from a Phoenix browser (Mozilla based browser) - everything works fine in EI.

This is what i'm using to set the cookie:

$domain = 'mydomain.com';

setcookie("cart",serialize($this->items), (14 * 86400), '/', $domain, 0) or die('Could not post cookie');

I did not recieve any error messages, so it seems as if the cookie has been set properly, however, when I go to view the cookie files, the only cookie i see for my site is named "PHPSESSIS", and not the name i gave it, "cart". When I try to read the cookie, I get nothing....

If anyone has encountered the same problem and can offer some insite as to what the problem may be, I would really appreciate it, thanks in advance.

tonyw

have you tried a simpler cookie to see if the basic cookie functionality is working -

setcookie("test", 42

spyderman

tonyw,

Yes I tried a simpler cookie too, but it does not work either. Is there anything special that I need to do in order for a netscape/mozilla based browser to work?

keith73

this is not a mozilla issue unless you have mozilla set to deny cookies.

If you are using sessions, PHPSESSID is automatically created when you call session_start() unless you turn session cookies off. The fact that it is setting that at least proves that you aren't denying cookies from that domain.

and are you really using mydomain.com as your domain, or is that just what you posted here?

Where is the script you are running?
Is it on the web or on your pc?
Is it running on Linux/apache or win/apache or win/IIS?

where are you looking for the "cookie list"? In the Mozilla Cookie Manager?

How do you know it's working in EI, er IE?

need input

keith

spyderman

keith73,

mydomain.com is just what i'm posting, and the script i'm running is hosted on a web server running Linux/Apache.

Yes, i'm looking in the Cookie Manager, and I know it works in IE because when I go to display the items i saved to the cart, it's there - that's not the case with the Phoenix browser though.

keith73

OK, now that we've eliminated some of the possible problems, we now need to see code. Not just your setcookie code, but as much as possible because we need to see the methodology involved, etc.

other than phoenix, have you used any other mozilla browser to see if it works there? perhaps it's just phoenix with the problem.

keith

spyderman

I'm using the latest version, 0.5, of the shopping cart class I found on phpbuilder:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=69

Everything is identical to that class, except I just changed the way I called setcookie (tried almost every method, yet it still won't work).

And to answer your other question, yes, I did try with a Mozilla browser, and it did not work either.

keith73

ok. I looked at that class, but I don't think the class is your problem. I see 4 lines where setcookie is called.

Inside of additem, removeitem, updateitem and removeall.

Where are you setting $domain = 'mydomain.com'. In each function or somewhere at the top of the script?

That's the class code, but we need to see where and how you are calling that code.

keith

spyderman

keith73,

I figured out what the problem was. It was the way I called setcookie.

setcookie("cart", serialize($this->items), (14 * 86400), '/', $domain, 0) or die('Could not post cookie');

When I added "time() + (14*86400)" it works perfectly fine. I'm not sure why it works in IE without the time() function though.....

I really appreciate your help, thanks.