Also, Please keep in mind that on windows, you will not be able to
successfully set a cookie if your script redirects to another page using
the typical header("Location:.."); command. Instead, you have to print
out headers to the page that uses meta tag refresh to refresh the page
to a new url location. Then the cookie properly sets. Otherwise...it
won't.
Angie Tollerson
Alliance Technologies
Web Programmer
(515)245-7628
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> "George Nicolae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/04/02 12:35PM >>>
You can't set a cookie in a page and use it immediately. From the
manual:
"Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that
the
cookie should be visible for. To test if a cookie was successfully
set,
check for the cookie on a next loading page before the cookie expires.
"
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Best regards,
George Nicolae
IT Manager
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PaginiWeb.com - Professional Web Design
www.PaginiWeb.com
"Nicholas Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello all, I seem to be having problems with getting cookies to set
> correctly. I use the following code:
> ___________________________________________________
>
> header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
> header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
> header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header("Cache-Control: post-check=1, pre-check=1", false);
> header("Pragma: no-cache");
>
> setcookie("User", $_POST['user']);
> setcookie("FirstName", $row["first_name"]);
> setcookie("LastName", $row["last_name"]);
> setcookie("Ext", $row["EXT"]);
> setcookie("Department", $row["dept"]);
>
> \\and to display it:
> <TABLE border = 1>
> <TR>
> <TH>First Name:</TH>
> <TH>Last Name:</TH>
> <TH>Extension:</TH>
> <TH>Department:</TH>
> </TR>
> <TR>
> <TD><?=$_COOKIE['FirstName']?></TD>
> <TD><?=$_COOKIE['LastName']?></TD>
> <TD><?=$_COOKIE['Ext']?></TD>
> <TD><?=$_COOKIE['Department']?></TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
> ___________________________________________________
> The problem it that the cookie does not set itself the first time the
page
> is loaded. It gives the following error:
> Notice: Undefined index: FirstName in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\helpdesk\menu.php
> on line 37
> Once you hit the reload button it works fine.
> And if the cookie is set and the user logs back into the page with a
> different user name then the old info is still set in the cookie
until you
> hit the reload button.
> Thanks for the help!
> -Nick
>
>
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