cookies problem, i think

n_m_woods1

hey y'all im a newbie with an issue

i think that there is a problem with my cookie script at the top of my page. if anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated and i would love them forever.

<?php 


 // Connects to your Database 

 mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "php") or die(mysql_error()); 
 mysql_select_db("nickwoo1_sql") or die(mysql_error()); 


 //Checks if there is a login cookie
 if(isset($_COOKIE['ID_my_site']))

 //if there is, it logs you in and directs you to the members page


 { 
 	$username = $_COOKIE['ID_my_site']; 
 	echo $username;
 	$pass = $_COOKIE['Key_my_site'];
 	echo $pass;
 	 	$check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Creature WHERE username = '$username'")or die(mysql_error());

 	mysql_close();
while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $check )) 	
	{
	echo "SQL Cookie while okay - ";
	if ($pass != $info['password']) 

		{ 			echo "Wrong password. Please try logging in again."; 
		  header("Location: http://nickwoods.org/vpet/incl/login.php"); 
		  }
	else
		{
		echo "SQL Cookie check passed - ";


?>

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="jsfiles/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
....... etc more body ettc etc etc .....



<?php

		} 

	} 

	} 


 ?>

bradgrafelman

Welcome to PHPBuilder! When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags (not the generic CODE tags) as they make your code much easier to read and analyze. You might also want to obfuscate your MySQL login credentials next time, too.

n.m.woods1 wrote:
i think that there is a problem with my cookie script at the top of my page.

Oh? Why do you think that? What's happening? What have you done to debug it?

We're going to need something more to go on than just "there is a problem."

n_m_woods1

oh my bad D: thanks for fixing my post for me

well basically i am just getting a blank screen, so i assume its catching somewhere, but i copied it exactly from another one of my pages that works perfectly fine. i've tried putting echos in there to see how far it gets but it doesnt even get to the first echo apparently

leatherback

easy check: Put an else statement in there too, and have the script output something like echo "No Cookie Set";.

n_m_woods1

thanks leatherback! that has helped a lot and i think i have narrowed down the problem.

so the issue (I THINK) was that the login.php form that set the cookie is in a folder outside of the index.php that is checking for the cookie, so for some reason it wasn't picking up the cookie, which i assume is an obvious thing for anyone that has done this all before and a stupid mistake on my behalf because i dont understand how cookies work.

when i copied the index.php into the folder with the login.php page in it, it worked fine. is there a way that i can fix the index.php to read the cookie even though it is sitting outside of the folder with the login.php page?

hopefully this makes sense and isnt a dickload of rambling

bradgrafelman

How are you setting the cookie?

Take a look at the manual page for [man]setcookie/man. Note that cookies have a 'path' attribute that is defined when you set the cookie. The manual page describes how that attribute is handled.

n_m_woods1

thank you so much 🙂 ill check it out