cookie hell...!

[tam_o_shanter]

I am trying to set a persistent cookie for an auto login on return.:I set it on the successful validation page:
<?php SetCookie("username",$username,time()+864000); ?>
The phpinfo returns the cookie has expired a year ago: Set-Cookie
username=deleted; expires=Sat, 07-Sep-2002 12:02:19 GMT

HELP

[Merve]

Take out the time from your setcookie() function.

And it's setcookie() not SetCookie().

[tam_o_shanter]

I did that, and it was no different, then I removed the "" from the name..all fine!!

However....the other pages on the site will not work with it: I am using isset (it works with !isset) but I cannot get an if/else to work:
<?php
if (isset(cookievalue)) {
echo "cookie set";
include 'lala.html';
}
else
{
s echo "To access the download area of the site, we require you to register. Please make sure you have cookies enabled so as not to sign-in every time<br />";
include 'join_form.html';
} ?>

[marque]

try set the path of your cookie to "/"

ie setcookie("username",$username,'','/');

that will allow the cookie to opporate on all directories of your site.

[tam_o_shanter]

Cheers for that..although that wasn't the problem (I had added that myself) it prompted me to remove the other variable - domain - 'localhost'!

It now works a treat - just got to upload it and see if it works in the real world!

btw: what is the syntax for the domain variable? I have seen many posts regarding the dot problem?

T