Cookies in IE won't work

Anon

I have use this code, It work's fine in netscape, but it's not working on IE. I'm using ie 5.5. anyone can help me?

<?php
setcookie("mycookie" , "$user" , time()+864000);
if(isset($user)):
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<head>
<title>Chat - Login</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php require("chatscreen.php");?>
<? else: ?>
<form>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td bgcolor="#cecece" colspan="5" height="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#cecece" colspan="5"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><b>  Welcome! to Elvin's Chatroom  </b></font></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#cecece" colspan="5" height="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td></tr>
<tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#cecece"><spacer width="2" height="1" type="block"></td><td width="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td><td><font face="Verdana" size="2">Please enter your name:</font><br><center><input type="text" size="30" name="user"><input type="submit" value="Submit"></center></td><td width="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td><td bgcolor="#cecece" width="1"><spacer width="2" height="1" type="block"></td></tr>
<tr><td height="5" width="1" bgcolor="#cecece"><spacer width="2" height="1" type="block"></td><td width="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td><td></td><td width="5"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td><td bgcolor="#cecece" width="1"><spacer width="2" height="1" type="block"></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#cecece" colspan="5" height="2"><spacer width="1" height="1" type="block"></td></tr>
</table>
<input type="Hidden" name="action" value="setcookie">
</form>
</body>

<? endif; ?>

yojimbo

Works fine for me. I did comment out that
<?php require("chatscreen.php");?>
line, so maybe your troubles lie in there?

Anon

I have tried it but still it won't work I'm running it on my local pc, does it matter? Or I need to upload it on a live server, right now Im simulating it over the LAN.

Anon

You might want to try sending all HTTP cookie parameters except the security parameter, including blank values; things are probably getting put in the wrong places.

Anon

I have tried putting them like this: setcookie("mycookie" , "$user" , time()+864000 , "/", ".elvin.com", 0); but it wont still work.

zemog

File 1: setcookie.php
<?
$cookie_name = "whatever";
$domain_name = ".yourdomain.com";

setcookie("$cookie_name","1",time()+(365243600),"/","$domain_name"); //setcookie life to a year

File 2: checkcookie.php
<?
$cookie_name = "whatever";

if (isset($cookie_name)==1):
echo "Cookie found!";
else:
echo "Cookie NOT found!";
endif;
?>

File 3: removecookie.php
<?
$cookie_name = "whatever";
$domain_name = ".yourdomain.com";

setcookie("$cookie_name","1",time()-(30243600),"/","$domain_name");
?>

First visit setcookie.php, this should set the cookie

Check cookie existence with checkcookie.php

Remove cookie with removecookie.php

Check that cookie doesn't exist anymore with checkcookie.php

Hope this helps.

Anon

thanks i'll try it! does it matter if i'll put it all the arguments in a variable?