question about cookies in winxp

[irwa82]

Hi,

I am very new to cookies and php and cannot seem to get them working properly.

I have read many tutorials on it by googling but nothing I do works.

I have tried simple code by just typing:
setcookie('newsletter','True');

But nothing is working for me. I am trying to write a script that decides wether or not to display a popup window telling the user about a newsletter we have.

I don't want this cookie to expire. Any help would be greatly apreciated, below I have include a script I have written.

$CookieValue = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['Newsletter'];
  if ($CookieValue == '')
  {
    setcookie('Newsletter','True');
  }
  if ($CookieValue == '' or $CookieValue == 'True')
  {
    print "<script langague=javascript>";
    print "Window.open('newsletter.html','ToolBox','toolbar=no,status=no,width=480,height=400');";
    print "</script>";
  }

[WinterDragon]

hehe do this...

if($_COOKIE['username']) {
echo "You have a freakin cookie!!!";
} elseif(!$_COOKIE['username']) {
echo "YOU DONT HAVE A FREAKING COOKIE!?!?";
setcookie('username', "My Name fool!");
}

Ok see? use $_COOKIE[] instead, GLOBAL variable, easy to use... sweet!! hehe thats about it really

[irwa82]

Hi,

I copy and pasted the code in above post into a blank new php script and got the following errors.

YOU DONT HAVE A FREAKING COOKIE!?!?

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tbweb_new/public_html/testcookie.php:9) in /home/tbweb_new/public_html/testcookie.php on line 11

line 11 is below
setcookie('username', "My Name fool!");

Any suggestions would be great.

[WinterDragon]

OOOPS! SHIT! Sorry about that!

You aren't allowed to put anything before the setcookies

<?php
if($_COOKIE['username']) {
echo "You have a freakin cookie!!!";
} elseif(!$_COOKIE['username']) {
setcookie('username', "My Name fool!");
echo "YOU DONT HAVE A FREAKING COOKIE!?!?";
}
?>

Ok so setcookie comes before ANYTHING, do not echo anything or whatever before a cookie, (btw I tested that, it works perfectly)

[irwa82]

Sorry about this but I re-copy and pasted that code and now it doesn't have any errors.

However when I look in C:\Documents and Settings\Anthony Irwin\Cookies (win xp & ie6) there are no cookies created.

I can keep refreshing the page but it keeps saying YOU DONT HAVE A FREAKING COOKIE!?!?.

I have also tried it on a win98 se machine with ie5 and looked in c:\windows\cookies and no cookies where created on it either.

I am sure there is something simple I am missing.

I am not closing the browser but want the cookie to remain there all the time anyway.

I have tried copying and pasting from multiple tutorials and code samples but nothing seems to work for me.

[WinterDragon]

strange, but It created one on mine just fine... hrm, windows98, internet explorer6, created just fine, make sure your security settings aren't all screwy

[andesa]

Hi irwa82 -

A few things:

1) I am sure you know this but sometimes it helps to be reminded (I've done it plenty of times). Remember variables ARE case sensative. Make sure 'Newslettter' is really 'Newsletter" and not 'newsletter' or 'NewsLetter'.

2) You might want to check for valtype( $CookieValue ) and see if it equals null.

if ( valtype( $CookieValue ) == NULL ) {
// do javascript popup here
// set your cookie to True so user doesn't see window again
}

HTH

Andesa