isset problem

[coldfused]

Hi, I'm creating this news system, its a very simple one for my personal use, i come across a problem when defining an author, basically the author of the news article is retrived from the login information which is stored in the cookie sent to the browser.
so in this cookie "userlogin" it has value "john|password"

I explode the value from '|' when I try to ask for the cookie, it returns an Undefinded index, so I added:

if(isset($_COOKIE['userlogin'])){
# rest of code
} else {
die("You are not logged in");
}

It always dies, on the you are not logged in bit. The cookie exists, and I'm not too sure how to get around this, does anyone have any ideas?

[harmor]

What is the code you've exploded the value with?

[coldfused]

list($username,$password) = explode("|",$_COOKIE['userlogin']);

so $username = "john";
and $password = "password";

[harmor]

Try this code

if(isset($username) && isset($password)){ 
# rest of code 
} else { 
die("You are not logged in"); 
}

[coldfused]

that doesn't work 🙁, still think its not logged in.
the whole code is:

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['userlogin'])){ 
  if(isset($_POST['newsSubmit']))
  {
    // Check form fileds are filled in.
  	if(!(strlen($_POST['newsTitle'])>0))
  	{
    	echo("Please fill in the news title.<br/>");
  	}
  	if(!(strlen($_POST['newsPost'])>0))
  	{
    	echo("Please fill in your post.");
  	}
  	// Submit form.
  	require_once("inc.config.php");
  	$dbc = @mysql_connect($db_h, $db_u, $db_p) or die(mysql_error());
  	@mysql_select_db($db_d) or die(mysql_error());
  	// Grab Author
    	list($username,$password) = explode("|",$_COOKIE['userlogin']);
    	$sql = "SELECT * FROM wucc_users WHERE username='{$username}'";
    	$result = @mysql_query($sql);
    	while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
        $addAuthor = $row['name'];
    	}
   	$addNews = addslashes(nl2br($_POST['newsPost']));
   	$addTitle = addslashes($_POST['newsTitle']);
   	$addDate = date("j M y");
   }
}
else
{
die("You are not logged in! <a href=\"http://localhost/wucc/id/login.php\">Click here to login in!</a>");
}	  

 ?>

[harmor]

Make sure the cookie actually has data in it by echoing it out.

Under

<?php

Add

echo $_COOKIE['userlogin'];

Edit: I've read that you said that the cookie exists, sorry.

[coldfused]

I get this error:

Notice: Undefined index: wucc_user in C:\docroot\wucc\news\postarticle.php on line 36

[coldfused]

Wait, this is weird, it works but only if I add that file postarticle.php into the same folder where the cookie was created.
The cookie was created after login in the folder id\login.php
and it only works in the folder "id" so in this case id\postarticle.php

but outside the id folder it won't work so it didn't work in the folder news\postarticle.php
why is this?? the cookie is set to

setcookie("userlogin","".$user."|".$pass."", time()+7200);

the cookie itself is not restricted to a particular folder or domain?
Whats causing the cookie only to work in the folder where it was created in?

[harmor]

setcookie("userlogin","".$user."|".$pass."", time()+7200, "/", "localhost", 1); 

I'm not sure if "localhost" will work though.

[coldfused]

There is data in the cookie, I've created a read.php file to read the cookie, and it shows that the cookie is def. active.

[harmor]

Re-read my last post.

[coldfused]

I tried that out, I modified the login script for the above code,
I checked the cookie by reading it, and it turned blank because there was nothing there, and the news script died on me in any folder, when I just put it back to setcookie("userlogin","".$user."|".$pass."", time()+7200); it worked fine only in id folder

[harmor]

I've done some research by searching "php setcookie on localhost".

setcookie("userlogin","".$user."|".$pass."", time()+7200, "/");

[coldfused]

Yeh I tried that as well 🙁

[misha299]

I always use if(!empty())