cookie

[adnan1983]

Can someone tell me why '$user', is not printing anything. It shoud display 'cosmo'. Help

setcookie ("user", "cosmo", time()+20); 
if (isset($user)) 
    echo $user; 

[laserlight]

The cookie is only accessable on the next page load.

Read the PHP manual on [man]setcookie/man

[adnan1983]

the cookie never expires. what is wrong with the login here?

if (isset ($_COOKIE['user_ip']))
{	
      echo $_COOKIE['user_ip'];
      echo "You have already voted once today";
}
else
{	
      setcookie("user_ip", $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], time()+300);
      insert_poll_count ($poll_options);
}