Setting cookies

zzz

I'm trying to set the cookie, but it doesn't seem to work.

if ($_COOKIE["mtFlash"] != "hide") {

echo 'content';

$value = 'hide';
setcookie("mtFlash", $value, time()+3);  /* expire in 1 hour */
}

I've attempted to echo it to see if it's been set, but alas, can not see any

echo $_COOKIE["mtFlash"].'1';
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["mtFlash"].'2';

bradgrafelman

When and where did you attempt to echo this cookie? Don't forget:

The setcookie() tells PHP to send the "Set-cookie" HTTP header -- this does NOT add the cookie info into the $_COOKIE array -- you have to wait for the client to send the cookie back to the server (i.e. next page load) for this to happen.
Without setting a path value, the cookie will be set to the current script's directory. In other words, if you set the cookie in mysite.com/path/to/cookie.php, then a script located at mysite.com/get/cookie.php would not be able to access this cookie. (Likewise for subdomains -- if you set the cookie on mysite.com, don't expect to see it on www.mysite.com .)

Weedpacket

And um, kinda obvious, but
time()+3 is not "expire in one hour"...

zzz

Yes, I changed it from 3600 for testing purposes and forgot to correct here.

I am still unable to set the cookie. I built a sample php page and this code works, but when I add the code to my template page, which does support PHP, it dows not seem to work...