Possible stupid cookie question

djdaz

Hi
I am setting a cookie, with the following command

setcookie("etg",$cookiestring, time()+3600, "/", ".sepden.users.digiserv.net", 0);

I know for a fact that the cookie is been set, but when i go to another page, i am asked to login.

click here for that page's phps file

Thanks in advance

batman

Hello,

What exactly are you storing in the cookie? You are just checking to see if they've been logged in before right? Or are you actually storing there username and password? If this be the case I would use a session instead of a cookie. What you could try is instead of using: if(!isset($COOKIE['etg'])) try using: if(empty($COOKIE['etg'])) and !empty.

djdaz

ill give a lil bit more details.

Before, i just used

setcookie("etg",$cookiestring)

and all worked well. Now that i have changed it to

setcookie("etg",$cookiestring, time()+3600, "/", ".sepden.users.digiserv.net", 0);

It dosnt work on that index page (the.phps file) but in the login page i am also checking to see if it is set, and it works well there.

The login page is in the root dir, and the index page is in /forum/ could that be anything to do with it?

Thanks again

batman

Well instead of using if(isset($_COOKIE['name']))

You could just try:

if(isset($etg))

Reason being, the value portion of the cookie will automatically be urlencoded when you send the cookie, and when it is received, it is automatically decoded and assigned to a variable by the same name as the cookie name.

Hope that helps,

djdaz

still dont work 🙁

I cant see why it works on one page and not the other. Think ill have a go when im not tired