Cookies in folders...

[ojeffery]

Hi all,

I've set a cookie, which is working fine, but it's only accessable from the folder of the page I set it in (in this case the admin folder). I didn't specifically tell it to set in that folder, but it only works on files in there. I need to be able to access it from all folders in the site. What am I doing wrong? 😕

Cheers, Oli.

[konrad]

How do you set your cookie? Could you post your code? Check set_cookie() function , especially path argument. According to manual, if you set it to '/', the cookie will be available within the entire domain.

[ojeffery]

I've set the cookie as follows:

setcookie ("id", $get_info[0], 0, '/'); 

It's set in a file called login.php within the /admin folder. The path element only seems to be a limiter as opposed to a... widener(?).

I've set up a test page to find out if the cookie has worked properly, which just picks up the cookie and prints it. I've installed it with the same code in the /admin folder and the root folder, and it only works in the former.

The code for test.php is as follows. Is there perhaps another way of accessing it?

<?php 

$id=$_COOKIE['id'];

print "$id";

?>

[konrad]

I can't see anything wrong with your code. I've check it (with $get_info[0] replaced with constant value) and it works in root/sub folder. Ensure you call the test script with the same prefix ('www' or '') you call /admin/login.php (ie. http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com have different cookies).

[Weedpacket]

konrad wrote:

(ie. http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com have different cookies).

So too are http://www.domain.com/ and https://www.domain.com/, if that's a point of difference for you.