cookie problems

[dazza12345]

Hi, I hope someone can help me out with this problem as its starting to seriously bug me.

Right, the following code is the first thing in my php script:

<?
$logusername = $_POST['logusername'];
$logpassword = $_POST['logpassword'];

if ($logusername != ""){
ob_start();
setcookie("bewiseusername", $logusername, time()+3600);
setcookie("bewisepassword", $logpassword, time()+3600);
ob_end_flush();
echo"SAVE COOKIE";
}

$bewiseusername = $logusername;
$bewisepassword = $logpassword;

if ($bewiseusername == ""){
echo "GET VALUSE FROM COOKIE";
$bewiseusername = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["BewiseBetsusername"];
$bewisepassword = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["BewiseBetspassword"];
}

What will happen is; a user will enter their username + password (using a form) then will click 'login' button which will call the same script again (using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].

Im trying to get the username and password saved into two cookies. This is not as easy as I first thought. Once the user clicks the submit button, the username and password are saved into the two varables ($logusername and $logpassword) and 'cookie saved' is outputted onto the screen.

However, the cookie does not seem to want to save. In another php script, I have put the following code:

<?
if(isset($_COOKIE['bewiseusername'])) {
echo "cookie exists";
}
else {
echo "cookie dont exists";
}
?>

Every time, it will output "cookie dont exist". I really have no idea what is going wrong with saving the cookie. Anyone with any additional knowledge of setting cookies, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.

Kind Regards
Daryl

 

[DRJ478]

You should set all the parameters for the cookie - just to be sure (path and domain).
Also note that there are 'designed' flaws in IIS when a 302 header is issued to redirect to a different page. In that case cookies are silently dropped.