PHP and Cookies, IE vs Firefox problem

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I am using the setcookie command to set a cookie and value. When the page is viewed again, I read in the value, and change it if it exists. This works fine in IE, but in Firefox and Mozilla it does not seem to take. Instead, it just blanks the cookie out instead of assigning the new value. Anyone else run into this? If so, how did you fix?

Here's the code:

<?
if (!isset($_COOKIE['views_remain'])) {  

	$time = time();
	setcookie("views_remain","5",$time + 2592000); 
} else {
	$var = $_COOKIE['views_remain'];
	if ($var != '1') { 
		if ($var == '5') {
			setcookie("views_remain","4",$time + 2592000);
		} else if ($var == '4') {
			setcookie("views_remain","3",$time + 2592000);
		} else if ($var == '3') {
			setcookie("views_remain","2",$time + 2592000);
		} else if ($var == '2') {
			setcookie("views_remain","1",$time + 2592000);
		}
		echo $var;
	} 
}
?>

[bradgrafelman]

Because you never set the $time variable in that entire ELSE statement.

But then again... why even use that variable at all? There's no need for it...

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bradgrafelman wrote:

Because you never set the $time variable in that entire ELSE statement.

But then again... why even use that variable at all? There's no need for it...

DOH! I knew I had been looking at it for too long. What was strange was that it worked fine in IE, but not Firefox/ Mozilla...

[bradgrafelman]

Probably another fine example of IE ignoring web standards and doing funky things. AKA everyone switch to FireFox 😉

So, did this resolve your problem? If so, don't forget to mark the thread resolved.