Hello All,

I am trying to use cookies to get my application to recognize returning users. After logging in I want to set a cookie using the following line of code:

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

But it doesn't seem to be working. I have tried to access the cookie using $_COOKIE['username'],and $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['username'], and I always get a null value.

I have also tried:

if(isset($username))

and it always comes up negative.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Glen

Okay, be a little more explicit -- Are you setting the cookie on the same page that you're checking it's existence on?

A cookie variable won't exist in $_COOKIE until you load another page under the same path for which the cookie is valid.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Also, you should check the return value of setcookie(). It should return TRUE if it ran successfully. Note that this doesn't indicate whether a user accepts the cookie -- TRUE here just means that setcookie was able to properly generate and send the proper HTTP header.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

OK, I checked the return value of setcookie() and it was setting fine. My problem was something else.

I appreciate everyone's help getting past these basic mistakes.

Glen