cookies not working?!?!

[Anon]

This has me really flabergastted!!

setcookie appears to not be working!!

i have checked to make sure the browswers ( yes i have tried numerous browsers ) have the accept all cookies enabled.

i have checked to make user track-vars is enabled.

after having called setcookie("ktcookie","me",time()+600,"/","xxx.com" )

quering the existance of $ktcookie fails.

while ( list($a,$b) = each($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) ) echo $a, $b

returns nothing..

phpinfo() returns the page without the variable HTTP_COOKIE_VARS being mentioned.

i don't know where else to go??

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

kevin

[Anon]

One good rule is to set alla parameters in the setcookie function. And while you are programming on localhost leave the domain parameter out, but then before you upload it to your host change that to correct domain...

[Anon]

Hi,

if you set the optional domain parameter ("xxx.com") it should match the domain of the web server or the cookie might not be set.
Do you really need the optional directory and domain parameters? Just try
setcookie("ktcookie","me",time()+600) and ensure that track_vars=1 exists in your php3.ini (or php.ini if using php4) if you want to use $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS.
phpinfo() will return something like this:
....
PHP Variables
HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["ktcookie2"] me
HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["ktcookie"] uuuu

Apache Environment
HTTP_COOKIE ktcookie2=me; ktcookie=uuuu

...

reload the page since cookies become valid after the next load of a page.
You can access the cookie directly by its name:

setcookie("ktcookie","me",time()+600);
echo "Value of ktcookie: ".$ktcookie."<br>\n";

...reload the page...

Further information:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.setcookie.php

Thomas

[Anon]

I am fighting with IIS on cookies, and have found that the domain parameters require at least two periods.

--ph