My darn cookies will not set!

[bo0]

Ok, 90% of the time I have no problems at all with setting my cookies. Yet, in this script the old "header" error occurs. Any ideas why?

if (isset($login)) {

	$check = safe_query("SELECT userID FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND password=md5('$password')");
if(mysql_num_rows($check) == 1) {	
setcookie("voodooname", "$username", time()+(3600*24*365));
setcookie("voodooID", "$userID", time()+(3600*24*365));
echo PROCESS;
echo("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"3;URL=../voodoo-gaming/\">");
} else { echo NOUSER; }

}

[Drakla]

Is it telling you that output started on a certain line from a certain script? You've probably got some whitespace somewhere in an include file, or before the snippet shown.

[bo0]

Drakla wrote:

Is it telling you that output started on a certain line from a certain script? You've probably got some whitespace somewhere in an include file, or before the snippet shown.

Let’s say I have got some un-removable white space before that line. What can I do about it?

[Drakla]

bo0 wrote:

Let’s say I have got some un-removable white space before that line. What can I do about it?

Unless you can start output buffering with something like [man]ob_start[/man] before that whitespace/text then you can do absolutely nothing. Cookies are set by the header of a document, as soon as any normal text is output the header section is closed and normal writing begins meaning no more cookies.

[Rodney_H_]

Drakla wrote:

Unless you can start output buffering with something like [man]ob_start[/man] before that whitespace/text then you can do absolutely nothing. Cookies are set by the header of a document, as soon as any normal text is output the header section is closed and normal writing begins meaning no more cookies.

In this case, you could then use Javascript to write the cookies instead of PHP.

🙂

[leatherback]

Hi,

Hm.. Interesting to see that you do not show WHERE the session is started.,

As for the whitespace.. ONLY if the whitespace is send to the website (So output is generated) there is a problem. But you can always avoid them, I suppose?

J.