Extreme pain w/ Cookies - Not accepting!

[Anon]

I am running Apache 2 and PHP 4 with MySQL on a Windows 2000 system. I am trying many scripts locally in order to test and customise them before I upload them. However, several of them require a logon of sorts which they store in a Cookie. Windows persistently will NOT PLACE THIS COOKIE. I have solved one by enabling use of Sessions rather than Cookies - the others do not have this capability. It is driving me crazy - is there anything anyone knows I can do about it? PLEASE?? 🙂

[Anon]

I've been learning how to use cookies, I've had a similiar problem.

I use the setcookie(name, value) function to write them, and the $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[name] to read them.

I've noticed that
If you're writing to a cookie straight from the url variables, such as:
setcookie("username", $HTTP_POST_VARS["username"]);
will write a blank cookie (and so, delete it).
but, if you buffer this variable, it'll work. An example:
$UName = $HTTP_POST_VARS["username"];
setcookie($username, $UName);

Hope this helps..
neur0maniak

[Anon]

Hi,

It really depends on what you want to do? Do you just want to have session management or do you want to know when a user comes back to your site and starts a new session.

I don't really like cookies, but on my site i wanted to use user authentication and wanted to have a stat full session..

I just wanted a mysql database and stored the information in a database on the server site and not on the client side..

I hope this provides a viable alternative to your problem.

Thanks
- Justin