Grrrr.. Cookies!

[Dennis Wrenn]

I tried using this code to set a cookie

setcookie ("TestCookie", "test");

I looked in c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\
and I didn't see my cookie,
I also tried doing this to get the cookie

echo $TestCookie;
//and even

echo HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["TestCookie"];

and nothing is working... Grrr...
whats wrong?


PS:
what are magic quotes?

[carp]

try this:

  
$time = time() +31536000; \\ expiration date
$value = test; \\ value of the cookie
setcookie('TestCookie',$value,$time);

[Mike Sullivan]

Don't they go in c:\Windows\Cookies?

[Dennis Wrenn]

thanks Ed...
I am so embarassed
and thank you carp,
but I still don't see my cookie, and I can't retrieve the value...
Any Idea's?

Thanks,
Dennis

[Dennis Wrenn]

by the way carp, your slashes are wrong

//this is a comment 2 front slashes

\\this is causes a syntax error... kinda hard to catch
if ya don't have them(//\\) back to back.. :o

and although it works, I wouldn't recomend using variables that have the name of a function...... causes confusion, and IMO its bad programming practice

My $0.02

[Menno]

Cookies - my personal horror to program
The little buggers never seem to work the way I tell them to

[Dennis Wrenn]

*holds shot glass up, and hurridly downs it*

I'm tryin' again!


*downs shotglass after shotglass*

Why isn't this working?

<?


$times = time() + 31536000; // expiration date
$value = "test"; // value of the cookie
setcookie("TestCookie",$value,$times, "me.com");

echo "D"; //I am using PWS v. 1 and if there is not output,
//it thinks there is an error, so I have to do something :-\
?>

Then I try this

echo $TestCookie;

that doesn't work, and I can't see my cookie in the cookie directory

[Mike Sullivan]

$times is malformed - you have to use the mktime(..) function. Look in vB's global.php for an example.

"me.com" isn't valid. You have to set that to a cookie path. ie, "/" or "/forums"

[Dennis Wrenn]

AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH

pardon my french, but DAMNIT!

setcookie ("MyCookie","test",mktime()+3600, "/myfolder/php", "ci", 1);

Why isn't this working?

ci is my local host, /myfolder is a virtual directory, and /php is a directory inside of myfolder....

[Dennis Wrenn]

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C'mon people... I need some help.... Doesn't anybody know anything about how to set cookies??

I've done it plenty of times in javascript, but I don't like javascript as much as PHP.

[Anscoop]

I don't see how this doesn't work, since it works very well for me:

setcookie("variablename",$variablevalue,time()+1800,"/",".yourdomain.com",0);

[Dennis Wrenn]

Grr...

I tried doing

echo setcookie("variablename",$variablevalue,time()+1800,"/",".yourdomain.com",0);

To see if it succeeded, it did because it echoed 1,
but I looked for my cookie, and I couldn't find it, and I couldn't retrieve the value with

echo $variablename;

Thanks,
Dennis

[Anscoop]

You did replace yourdomain.com with your domain right?

[JohnM]

Here's the code I use:

setcookie("username", $username, time() + 31536000, "/");

Works OK for me...

BTW... you DO have cookies enabled, right?

[Dennis Wrenn]

Yep, cookies enabled, Nope, don't have a domain....
I tried using
ci << computer name
localhost << localhost, works same as computer name
192.168.1.1 << intranet IP
and my `real` internet IP


Thanks,
Dennis