not reading cookie

pinehead18

I have a script that sets a cookie to equal $uname.

However, my verify script which looks for a cookie with the name of uname works and finds the cookie. But when i echo $_COOKIE['uname']; even when i set the value to "bigbobjo" and not $uname it will not display any contents.

Any ideas?

Thank you
Anthony

Pig

How about you post your code so we can see what you are doing?

pinehead18


<?php
        setcookie ("uname", "bigbobjo",time()+4500000);
?>

<?php
       echo $_COOKIE['uname'];
?>

Pig

How are you verifying the cookie (as you stated in the first post?)
Some browsers will not accept a cookie without all the arguements.

pinehead18

if ($_COOKIE['uname']) {
echo "cookies are neat and they work";
} else {
echo "no cookie";
}

that is how i verify it.

Anthony

stolzyboy

can you check your comp and see that the cookie is physically there

pinehead18

well its weird now my cookie script wont set a cookie again..

but it does sometimes?

pinehead18

setcookie ("cookiename", $value,$time()+3600), "/", ".website.net, 0);

that look right?

Pig

setcookie ("cookiename", $value,$time()+3600), "/", ".website.net", 0);

pinehead18

<?php
        setcookie ("uname", "",$time()-3600), "/", ".website.net", 0);
        header("Location: [url]http://www.p.net[/url]");
?>

I get a parse error.. on the set cookie

Pig

sorry, I wasn't looking at the time area. First, you cannot do $time(). it is either a function() or a $variable, but not $both().

Try this:

setcookie ("uname", "", ( strtotime("now -1 hour") ), "/", ".website.net", 0);