cookie question

[skiflyer]

Is it possible to write a cookie which never expires?

setcookie("email", $email, ????);

-Rob

Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

Technically, no. But practically, you can get something equivalent to your needs. Set the expiration to 100 years from now. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[skiflyer]

Alright, that works... second question... why won't my cookie work?!

I have a page which processes a form, then flops you back to where you started... so my first line is.

setcookie("email",$email, 36000000);

then alot of php

then

Header("Location:

http://chnttrackrecord/sqecentral/html.php");

And it's quite clear to me what's going on, the cookie header info is being completely rewritten with the location header information. I suppose I could change my header info at the bottom to a javascript page with a startup function that redirects... but I like elegance, is there a way to combine the header info?

 

[sleipnir214]

I doubt that the "Location" header is overwriting the "Cookie" header. Both are valid headers, and you can send many headers in a single transaction.

Here's a pair of test scripts I just wrote:
[/i]test_cookie1.php[/b]:

<?php
setcookie (&quot;foo&quot;, &quot;bar&quot;, time() + 3153600000);
header (&quot;Location: /test_code/test_cookie2.php&quot;);
?>

test_cookie2.php:

<?php
print '<pre>';
print_r ($_COOKIE);
?>

And here's my output from test_cookie2.php:

Array
(
    [foo] => bar
)

Which is what I expect. Are you redirecting to a location for which the cookie you've set is valid? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[skiflyer]

That's your output? Not mine, I get old values from other cookies I set, but [foo] remains unset for me when I run your code. Must be a version or setup thing... well nice to know I was doing it right anyway.

4.2.3, IIS4

Cookie settings as defaulted.

-Rob

 

[skiflyer]

Yeah, was definately some problem with the header call... either an overwrite or just botching the two... I took the easy way and just used javascript for the redirect and all is fine... strange that is. Mayhaps I should've looked into headers_sent... but I'm up now.

-Rob