cannot set/delete cookie

Gasolene

2 scripts below, 1 sets cookie, 1 doesn't

I can't figure out why

// THIS SCRIPT WORKS - I CAN SET THE COOKIE HERE
// note: i removed some unrelated code to make shorter

<?
// validate
if( $user != "" && pass != "" )
{
// open user account database
$fp = fopen("dbase_calendar/database/dbase_837974.db", "r");
flock($fp, 1);
$index = 0;

	// parse database
	while (!feof($fp))
	{
		// get dbase file
		$row= fgets($fp, 1000);

		// split into variables
		list ($date_, $user_, $password_, $account_, $type_) = split ('&', $row);

		// verify password
		if( $user == $user_ && $pass == $password_ )
		{
			// set login cookie
			setcookie("cookiename[0]", "$account_");
			setcookie("cookiename[1]", "$user_");
			setcookie("cookiename[2]", "$password_");

// ... and so on...

// AFTER THIS, THE COOKIE IS SET FINE!!!

// THEN THIS SHOULD WORK!!!!

// set login cookie (different page)
<?
setcookie("cookiename[0]", "test");
setcookie("cookiename[1]", "test");
setcookie("cookiename[2]", "test");
?>
// but it does not!!

dalecosp

And you mean to say that this:

<? 
setcookie("cookiename[0]", "test"); 
setcookie("cookiename[1]", "test"); 
setcookie("cookiename[2]", "test"); 
?>

is the entire script?

Gasolene

yes, for the sake of trouble shooting

dalecosp

So, you do this:

//test1.php

<?  

setcookie("cookiename[0]", "test");  

setcookie("cookiename[1]", "test");  

setcookie("cookiename[2]", "test");  

echo "<a href=\"test2.php\">Click here</a>";
?>

and then:

//test2.php

<?
var_dump($_COOKIE);
?>

...and still have no results?

Gasolene

that is correct

Gasolene

// test1.php
<?
setcookie("cookiename[0]", "xxx");
setcookie("cookiename[1]", "xxx");
setcookie("cookiename[2]", "xxx");
?>
// test2.php
<?
var_dump($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[cookiename]);
?>

// [aa, aa, aa] is what the cookie was set to before running this script.

output:

array(3) { [0]=> string(2) "aa" [1]=> string(2) "aa" [2]=> string(2) "aa" }

dalecosp

did you refresh the browser?

Gasolene

100 times

I've been playn with this for a couple days

can u set cookies from more than 1 place??
and do i hav to delete cookie b4 setting it to different value??

dalecosp

Overwriting a cookie changes its value.

setcookie() is like header(); you must call it before any output to the browser.

I can't fathom your issue -- I put a test script up here and it's working as expected...

Sorry 🙁

epimeth

actually, I ran into a similar problem yesterday... setcookie() takes more than just those two parameters... fill in all of the parameters and it should work....

Gasolene

thanx, that was the solution

i added 'time() + 3600' to the setcookie function and all is well

dalecosp

Originally posted by epimeth
actually, I ran into a similar problem yesterday... setcookie() takes more than just those two parameters... fill in all of the parameters and it should work....

Takes them, doesn't require them...except maybe in the case of borken browsers...

tekky

Hope you dont mind me posting a similiar problem on this thread, but I've ran into a similiar problem... I can get ONE cookie to set... but not another BASED on this original cookie....

maybe I need more indept variable checking.... tis one thing I havent tried so far....

here's what I was trying....

if ($_COOKIE["online"] != 1)
{
	if ($_COOKIE["checked"] != 1)
	{
		setcookie("checked", 1, time()+60*10, "/", ".xnet.org");
	}
	else
	{
		setcookie("online", 1, "", "/", ".mydomain.com");
	}
}
else
{
	if ($_COOKIE["checked"] != 1)
	{
		setcookie("visited", time(), time()+60+60*24*365, "/", ".mydomain.com");
	}
}

the result i get....
from my cookies file...

checked
1
mydomain.com/

3223839872
29579068
417039872
29579068
*

essentially "checked" is just a delay so that a news page will list new news as "new" for the first 10 minutes after they visit, and then update their "visited" time to the new time... and this is ALL before even the <html> tag is sent to the browser..... (tried it after <html> and inside <head> but same results)