How do I get cookies to work?

mickey · - Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 25

I am having a problem getting cookies to work on my computer, I have:

1. made sure that the browser is set to accept them and
2. changed my php.ini file (to what has been suggested in some of the other postings), as below:

session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 1
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = c:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\tmp
session.cookie_domain = localhost

is there something else that I may have missed? :?:

this is the script that i am using:
<?
$cookie_name = "test_cookie";
$cookie_value = "test_string";
$cookie_expire = time()+900;
$cookie_domain = "http://localhost";
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $cookie_expire, "/", $cookie_domain, 0);
?>
<html>
<head><title>Set Test</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>cookie sent!</h1>
</body>
</html>

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Do not use http in $cookie_domain = "http://localhost";
Change it to $cookie_domain = "localhost";
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mickey · - Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 25

Thanks for the help. I changed the part indicated to "localhost" but this hasn't made a difference, any other ideas please.

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Mickey, there are a lot of incompatibilities between browsers regarding cookies. We managed to have them work using your example on both IE and Opera by avoiding refering to the domain name.

mickey · - Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 25

Thankyou so much...made the changes and it works now. I had tried in three browsers IE, Opera, and Netscape and it wouldn't work in either.

will take a look at the PHP reference,

Thanks again :D