Cookie Issue - List of Countries

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Hi there,

I have a bit of an issue setting the cookie for a page. I have an entry page that displays a list of countries and after the user selects one from the combobox I would like to
store the user's choice in a cookie so that it doesn't have to go through the same process, when he/she is returning to the site and also to use the country name when displaying content on some other pages of the site.

I can see the cookie in FireFox, in IE I can't see it, but it doesn't work. It keeps displaying the page like there is no cookie.

I have tried whatever methods I found, setting the cookie with JavaScript, and some other ones I saw on the comments listed under php documentation page but without success.
I am running Apache and PHP and I am converting the site from ASP.

Here is the source code and the files:

country.inc

<?php

function get_country_name($country_folder) {
$country_name = '';

if ($country_folder != '') {
	if ($country_folder == 'Aruba') $country_name = 'Aruba';
	if ($country_folder == 'Antartica') $country_name = 'Antartica';
	// .......................... (list of countries) ....................
}
return $country_name;	

}

?>

index.php

<?php
if (session_id() == "") session_start(); // check if there is a session and if it isn"t, start one

// initialize variables
$URL = "http://www.intelligencerealm.com/";
if (isset($_COOKIE["Country"])) {
	$country = $_COOKIE["Country"];
	$country_folder = substr($country, 1);	

	// remove cookie if found - it was used on the old ASP web site
	setcookie("Country", $country, time()-60*60*24, "/", ".intelligencerealm.com", 1);
} else {
	if (isset($_COOKIE["CountryFolder"]))
		$country_folder = $_COOKIE["CountryFolder"];
	else
		$country_folder = "";
}

if ($country_folder != "") {
	$_SESSION["CountryFolder"] = $country_folder;
	$_SESSION["CountryName"] = "";

	$URL = $URL . "session.php?CountryFolder=" . $country_folder;
} else {
	// default country
	$country_folder = "Canada";
	$country_name = "Canada";

	$_SESSION["CountryFolder"] = $country_folder;
	$_SESSION["CountryName"] = $country_name;

	$URL = $URL . "index_ie.php";
	}
}
$URL = "Location: " . $URL;

// cookie will expire in 7 years
setcookie("CountryFolder", $country_folder, time()+60*60*24*30*12, "/", ".intelligencerealm.com", 1);

header($URL);	// redirect to URL
exit;

?>

session.php

<?php
require_once("country.inc");

session_start();

// initialize variables
$URL = 'http://www.intelligencerealm.com/';
$country_name = '';

// retrieve QueryString value
$country_folder = $_GET['CountryFolder'];		

if ($country_folder != '') {
	$country_name = get_country_name($country_folder);

	$_SESSION['CountryFolder'] = $country_folder;
	$_SESSION['CountryName'] = $country_name;

	$URL = $URL . 'Countries/Local/index.php?CountryFolder=' . $country_folder;
}

$URL = 'Location: ' . $URL;

header($URL);	// redirect to URL
exit;	

?>

Any help on how to do that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Ovidiu Anghelidi

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http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem
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