cookie woes

[23style]

im trying to create a "remember password" type thing in a user preference box so users dont have to type in their passwords everytime they want to use the system.

having some trouble with the cookies though. here's the deal:

i set a cookie called mycookie on a page called designer.php (for testing purposes) and set the value to "this is a test value". then on the user preference page after they submit the form (a page called change_profile.php) i set mycookie's value to "testing123"

when i echo the cookie variables back it says its value is "this is a test value"

if i do not set the value on another page...and echo the cookie value back out on change_profile.php the cookie value comes up blank.

but...if i look in my cookies folder in the file that was set...the cookie value is "testing123" - it still outputs "this is a test value" on the site though

could anyone shed some light on my situation here?

thanks 🙂

[rich_d]

Would suggest posting small bits of the code from each page, a bit hard to debug as your post stands. Could be anything really. Code error, domain error, http error, etc.

Cheers,

Rich

[23style]

sorry 😉

here's a snippet from change_profile.php which is called from edit_profile.php

<? session_start();

if ($remember_pass == "true") {
	setcookie ("rememberpass", "true", time()+3600);
} else {
	setcookie ("rememberpass", "false", time()+3600);
}

if (session_is_registered("valid_user")) {

and here is a snippet from designer.php which is called from designer_login.php which is a login page. i want them to be able to just access designer.php if they set their profile preference to "remember password"

<?

session_start();

if ($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["rememberpass"] == "true") {
	echo "remember pass is set to true";
}

echo "cookie var = ".$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["rememberpass"];

this outputs nothing after cookievar.

thanks for your help 😃

[23style]

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[23style]

anyone?

any help is much appreciated, im really stumped here