about cookie

celavi

forumdisplay.php:

if($forum['password'] && $action == 'pwverify') {
if($pw != $forum['password']) {
showmessage('forum_passwd_wrong');
} else {
setcookie("fidpw$fid", $pw, 0, $cookiepath, $cookiedomain);
header("Location: {$boardurl}forumdisplay.php?fid=$fid&sid=$sid");
}
}

if (!empty($forum['password']) && $forum['password'] != $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['fidpw$fid']) {

include template('forumdisplay_passwd');
discuz_exit();

}

The $pw is got by post,and I test that it has the correct value.
And $forum['password'] exists,too.
They are equal.

But why every time I will enter in the second if{}?😕

barand

The cookie contents aren't available until you next load this or another page.

IIS or PWS only :

A 'feature' of the Microsoft products means that setting cookies and redirecting are mutually exclusive.

celavi

yes,the server is IIS
the same page runs well on another apache server

so what should I do ?

Thanks!

barand

Instead of the location header, display something like

"You have successfully logged in. You may enter the forum" .

Provide a a link to your next page.

hth

celavi

thanks🙂

celavi

bikeman82 at hotmail dot com
24-Feb-2003 05:23

I found out that having a "Location: "-header sent (through header()) and setting a cookie with setcookie() is something that doesn't work on an IIS-server (for as far as I know up to version 5.0) and PHP installed as a CGI.

Have a look at this Microsoft-page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q176113

Easiest way to solve this is installing PHP as an ISAPI, but I guess the proposed solution works as well (need to go through some testing before I'm sure about that).

Greetz,
Bikeman

celavi

soreman at abv dot bg
11-Apr-2003 04:26

If you experience problems on Microsoft Information Server (IIS) when setting a cookie via PHP and when PHP is running as a CGI binary it is not setting the cookie. After spending many hours on what the problem is here is what happens:

When you invoke setcookie and redirect to another page you will not have your cookie set, because it seems that IIS doesn't set the cookie unless you actually send some contents to the browser. Therefore if you want to set a cookie and then redirect to another page you will have to do the redirection via JavaScript and/or HTML if you want your script to work on IIS.