[RESOLVED] included file can't set cookie

[lpa]

Hello,

I have 2 files. let's say, registracion.php and login.php. I want to include login.php file in registracion.php. Everything is OK, but this combination can set cookie only in Firefox. All other browsers don't save cookie.

Any ideas?

registracion.php

<?php
define("ILANGUAGE", "es");
include_once '../../login.php';
?>

login.php

<?php
### Login process ###
setcookie("userstatus", $i['userstatus']);
?>

[Krik]

I can't tell with the code snippets you provided but if you read [man]setcookie[/man] on php.net it states that

Like other headers, cookies must be sent before any output from your script (this is a protocol restriction).

and

If output exists prior to calling this function, setcookie() will fail and return FALSE.

So if you have any html being output before you call the "setcookie" function it will not work.

[lpa]

krik,

thank you for your reply.

There is no output before setcookie(). If I access login.php file directly, it can set cookie but if I include this file in in another file (registracion.php) it can't set cookie in all browsers except Firefox.

There is no output in registracion.php file - it contains only 2 lines:

define("ILANGUAGE", "es");
include_once '../../login.php'; 

[lpa]

It looks like I have found the problem.

In this situation cookie will be set only if I specify $path:

setcookie("userstatus", $i['userstatus'],0,"/");