Dammed Cookies

uatec

I am using the following code to set a cookie as the user logs in to my system.

<?php setcookie("username", addslashes($_POST['username']), 30000000); ?>

However for some reason it does not actually set the cookie. I have tried it on many different computers and it is not the particular system.

<?php echo "Username: " . $POST['username'] . " Cookied username: " . $COOKIE['username']; ?>

This line should output the username that they entered $_POST['username'], and then it should output the username that was stored in the cookie. however the cookie is empty... What am I doing wrong? It worked before...

Thanks,

Uatec

bobthedog

Well - without seeing more code this is just a guess, but I think you are probably doing those 2 lines of code in the same page load. If you look at the man page for [man]setcookie/man you will see it explicity mentions that: -

Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for

so - setting a cookie will not render it visible until the next page load, when the browser will supply cookie information in the page request header.

uatec

what the major problem is actually... I am storing a cookie of the username, so that when the user logs on, the application knows what his username is. if it isnt specified he gets sent back to the logon page with an error... when you logon however, it takes you straight back to the logon page.

the cookie is set in formproc.php which logs you on
then forwards you to overview.php where the cookie is read...

it works on my development server, but not on my proper one... so i am confused, both servers are apache(win32) and php, and i think they are running the same versions of both.