Cookies sometimes works?!!

[thenewa2x]

When I visit my site after I login and save my session data in a cookie (not PHP session, but my own), let say at:

http://www.mysite.com/

I am logged in already, that's what I want. But when I start surfing my site, for example:

http://www.mysite.com/?act=Something

I am no longer logged in because my program could not retrieve the cookie data from my browser. I realized that when a query string exists, the HTTP_COOKIES variable in the _SERVER array disappears. I don't know why this happens. Does anyone have any idea?

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[Olavxxx]

Hmm, why dont you just use SESSIONS?
It's VERY easy! You can specify a timeout on the session too!

 

[sleipnir214]

Check the path for which your cookie is valid.


But as DaButcher has said, PHP's sessions are easy to use and more secure than storing sensitive data in a cookie.


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[thenewa2x]

My problem was with PHP sessions before this. I just wrote a work around. Thx for the help anyway!

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[Olavxxx]

thenewa2x:
what was your problems with sessions?

maybe you used some out-dated functions for sessions?
did you forget to start the session on each page?

 

[thenewa2x]

The very first thing any of my scripts did was start the session. Cookies were set but once there was content in the QUERY_STRING environment variable, cookies could not be accessed and therefore could not access the PHPSESSID cookie. Not only that but PHP isn't parsing the href tags in my output to include the SID. Later i added them but it still didn't work so I said, "The heck with it, I'll write my own.". Member's logging and staying logged in was a major issue.

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[Olavxxx]

example of session pages:

[b]// code for page1.php[/b]
<?php
// always start session fist!
session_start();

$_SESSION['unam'] = "leroy brown";

echo "<a href=\"page2.php?{SID}\">Page 2</a>";
?>

[b]// code for page2.php[/b]
<?php
// always start session fist!
session_start();

echo $_SESSION['unam'];
?>

if you use forms, simply do it like this:
<form action="page.php?<?=SID?>" method="post">

if this does not work, try specifying a new path for saving sessions in.

ref:

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-save-path.php

I hope this will work for you, as it's very easy to use and also works great!

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[thenewa2x]

Thx

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