Cookie problem Help

evo8

Hello ppl
I have this code :-

<?phpif(isset($value))
{
SetCookie("mycookie",$value,time()+3600);
}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Cookie test script</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php print('mycookie = ' . $mycookie); ?>

  <form action="" method="post">
     Type value: <input name="value" type="text">
     <input name="submit" type="submit">
  </form>

</body>
</html>

The problem is when i execute it, there are no cookies created by my internet explorer.

How do i create cookies?

chads2k2

Hey chief,

Check this out:

<?php
if(isset($value))
{
SetCookie("mycookie",$value,time()+3600);
}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Cookie test script</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php print('mycookie = ' . $mycookie); ?>

<form action="" method="post">
Type value: <input name="value" type="text">
<input name="submit" type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

This works fine. Remember, that when cookies are not displayed until the site is called. So, what you could do is either learn how to use SESSIONS (DO this for ANY major development you do), or check your cookie settings in IE.

Chad

evo8

I would like to ask, if i am going to use the session(), can it replace the cookie?

What i mean is that can i use session instead of the cookie?

I am currently doing a project of e-commerce. Wondering if session can be used to replace the cookie.

wilku

Session will not only replace cookie (in terms of what you can do), but gives you a lot more possibilities.

evo8

if i use session, will the session will be the same everytime i login?

because i am doing a shopping cart, i need to retrieve the information as the id

if the session changes everytime i login, how do i make sure that the guy will be retrieving from his cart and not from others

Thank you

wilku

Well, if the customer will login, he will do it with his id, supplying this information for current session.

Storing data in cookies for a shopping cart causes some troubles. What when the user wants to acces his data from other computers, then the one which originally stored the cookie? And cookies are deleted from time to time. The way I see it (I mean the way I saw it in shopping cart scripts 😉) is to put user data (like shopping history) in a database on the server and create session based authentication scripts to acces this data. You can store in the session products which customer have chosen to buy and at the end of the visit ask the user to confirm his choice, saving the information to database - this is the idea of a shopping cart anyway.