Cookies problems

Napster

Ok, so I set a cookie in a script located in the root folder. Now I am trying to reach this cookie from another script in a folder one step up. But for some reason I can not. I tried going $_COOKIE['user'] as that is the name of the cookie but it still turns up blank??

I have done stuff like this before and it worked.

rehfeld

set the path paramter of setcookie() to:

look at the manual for setcookie to learn more

Napster

I tried that, well kinda since this site is the subdomain of another site I put the path as /rpg/ since that is the path http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/

Napster

I also tried using $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['user'] but that did not help.

rehfeld

make sure

-php is actually sending the cookie
- the browser is accepting the cookie

for example, trying to use setcookie after sending output wont work.

if you still cant solve it after checking the above

have you tried with other browsers?
it could be a browsers security policy. you may need to send a p3p header

also, if you mixing subdomains like
http://example.org
http://www.example.org
http://subdomain.example.org

you will need to set the domain parameter to setcookie() accordingly.

Napster

Ok, I know the cookie is actually setting. I set the cookie in this script:

http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/login.php

I can see the cookie is set any any of these scripts

http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/test.php
http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/footer.php

or any script in the /rpg/ folder.

However if I go up a folder into a script like

http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/forums/forum.php

The cookie turns up empty if I user $user, $_COOKIE['user'] or $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['user']

rehfeld

and this happend regardless of the browser being used?

Napster

Yes, and cookies are enabled on this computer.

Napster

Here I have an idea, why doesn't this become more complex. In the header of the site, the cookie works fine in the /rpg/forums/ directory. However, on the footer it wont show up.

All that stands inbetween the header and the footer is a message telling the users something. Then it includes the footer and then stops any more code from appearing.

Now I need the cookie to work in the footer, but it decides that it doesnt like the footer for whatever reason and will not show up there?

rehfeld

so your saying you can do this in the header

echo $_COOKIE['foo'];

but NOT in the footer, of the same page request?

if so, sounds like your doing one of these type of brain farts

if ($_COOKIE['foo'] = '') { // note 1 equals sign

}

which sets the value, or rather, erases it.

but basically, if it works in 1 part of the script, but not the other, your altering the value somehow, somewhere.

Napster

I know I am not erasing it as the value is the username of the user logged in. In the header the code is:

<?php

$username = $_COOKIE['user'];

echo $username;

?>

And the username shows up, however if I decide to put that code in the footer and it return empty. I then try and echo $_COOKIE['user'] but it also returns empty.

Napster

Ok, so on this page, the script looks like this:


<?php

  inlcude_once("header.php");

  $id = $_GET['id']; 


  if (empty($id)) {

message("Site Name....","Message....");

  }

  ..... other code

  include_once("footer.php");

?>

So if I go on that page and the url is like forum.php?id=1 then it views normally and the cookie turns up properly in the footer.

Now here is where my function message() comes in. All the code for that function looks like:


  function message($title,$message,$t=0) {

global $bgcolor, $bordercolor;


echo "

  <center>

  <table border=\"0\" style=\"text-align: center\" bgcolor=\"$bordercolor\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"1\" width=\"75%\">

   <tr bgcolor=\"$bgcolor\">

    <td>

     <b><u>" . $title . "</u></b>

    </td>

   </tr>

   <tr bgcolor=\"$bgcolor\">

    <td>

     " . $message . "

    </td>

   </tr>

  </table>

";


if ($t == 0) {

  include("http://www.mugglepride.com/rpg/footer.php");

  exit;

}

  }

So now, if there is no ?id=1 or whatever, in the URL, then the message appears, but the thing is, when the message shows up, the cookie seems to be blank after the message appears?? I can not figure out why.

Napster

I figured it out. In the message function, instead of the include I went:

require ($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/rpg/footer.php");