[RESOLVED] Cookies works different in local than on remote server ?

Sherman

A bit frustrated.
Trying to use cookies to recuperate an user's id whenever he returns to the web page so as to retrieve his data from a mysql table.

Got it figured out and working in my local server (wamp). But when uploading the programs to my web server it gives different results.

The code is as follows:
If(isset($COOKIE["volid"]))
{
$cookids = $COOKIE[volid];
print ("cookids is: ".$cookids." ");
//get the id without the single quotes:
$cookids = substr($cookids,1,2);
print ("cookids is: ".$cookids." ");

etc etc

This code displays the following on screen:

1) In my local server:
cookids is: '30'
cookids is: 30

2) But on my remote server:
cookids is: \'35\'
cookids is: '3

So it's quite a bummer to not get the same results, and probable have to adapt the php program difefrent for the remote server. Could this have something to do with the different php.ini settings on each server or different versions of php ?

Thanks in advance😕

Jack_McSlay

$cookids = $_COOKIE[volid];

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc () ){
   $cookids = stripslashes ($cookids);
}

Sherman

Thanks, substituted substr for stripslahes as follows:

If(isset($COOKIE["volid"]))
{
$cookids = $COOKIE[volid];
print ("cookids is: ".$cookids." ");
//get the id without the single quotes:
$cookids = stripslashes($cookids);
print ("cookids is: ".$cookids." ");
//adding this to remove single quotes from id before using it for a select from the mysql table afterwards:
$cookids = intval($cookids);
print ("cookids is: ".$cookids.");

etc etc

This code displayed now on screen is:

1) In my local server:
cookids is: '30'
cookids is: '30'
cookids is: 0 <--- problem here...

2) On my remote server:
cookids is: \'35\'
cookids is: '35'
cookids is: 0 <--- problem here...

So STRIPSLAHES is definitively the way to go. Now have to see about the rest. Thanks again. Will mark as resolved once I get the thing to do what it's intended.

Sherman

Ok, problem, seems fixed now. Didn't imagine it would be so complicated to work with cookies. They make it sound so much easier in the manuals....

at the end of the code I've added:
$cookids = substr($cookids,1,2);
print ("cookids es: ".$cookids." ");

And now I get:
1) In my local server:
cookids is: '35'
cookids is: '35'
cookids is: 35

2) On my remote server:
cookids is: \'35\'
cookids is: '35'
cookids is: 35

So, with final value of 35 I can now access the mysql table using "where ID = $cookids"

Thanks for your help, I am closing as resolved for now at least 🙂