$_Cookie does not work on localhost

[plnii]

Been driving me crazy for the past few days.

My config: Apache 1.3.5, PHP 5.1.4

It works like:

1. One script uses setcookie to save a userID to a cookie. (I verified that it was actually set by looking in the browser cookie directory)
2. Calls a new page, which uses $_Cookie to get the cookie. If the cookie is verified, then it allows the user to view the page.

However, the $_cookie array is always empty, so it never finds the cookie.

Anyone have a clue as to why this might happen?

Thanks.

[atokatim]

be sure to have session_start() at the very top of the code. You can also try using this:

$_SESSION['variable'] = "blah";

echo $_SESSION['variable'];

[plnii]

atokatim wrote:

be sure to have session_start() at the very top of the code. You can also try using this:

$_SESSION['variable'] = "blah";

echo $_SESSION['variable'];

Good idea, but I'm not using sessions, just $_COOKIE['varname'] and setcookie("varname", $value)

[atokatim]

have you tried :

$userid = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["userid"];

[plnii]

atokatim wrote:

have you tried :

$userid = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["userid"];

Yep, same problem. It doesn't find it. I'm thinking it has to be a configuration problem with Apache / PHP, but have no idea where to look.

[atokatim]

Im am not exactly sure, but in my server's php.ini file, there are serveral cookie options. i think that may be for sessions too.

; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1

Not sure if that is much help 🙁 Wish i knew a little more.

[plnii]

atokatim wrote:

Im am not exactly sure, but in my server's php.ini file, there are serveral cookie options. i think that may be for sessions too.

; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1

Not sure if that is much help 🙁 Wish i knew a little more.

Unfortunately, that's how I have it set right now. A good idea, though.

I've been playing around more. Apparrently I can view the cookie using the file in which it was set, but not from any other page.

Seems like there should be a setting to change this, but I haven't found it yet.

Thoughts?

[plnii]

Following up, I finally figured it out.

When you call setcookie($xxx, $yyy, time() + $zzz), it is only accessible by files in the current directory. I added a '/' to make:

setcookie($xxx,$yyy,time() + $zzz, "/")

Now I can access the cookie.

It only took about nine hours to figure that out. :queasy: