[SOLVED] Cookie not being set by page

[Voodoo Jai]

I have a page that is supposed to set a cookie but when I check the cookies its not there. part of the code is here:

 

<?php
if($_GET["action"] == "2"){
    $username = $_POST["username"];
    $password = $_POST["password"];
    $referrer = "http://host.com";
    if($username == "username" && 
       $password == "password" && 
       str_replace("www.", "", $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) == $referrer."statistics2.php")
   {

        setcookie("JumboJai", "poochimasta", 0);

    }
}
?>

If I set the cookie not to be TRUE then my page does what its supposed to:

 

<?php
if($_COOKIE["JumboJai"] != "poochimasta")
{
mysql_select_db($database_host_conn, $host_conn);
echo "COOKIE WORKING";
?>

I'm confused.com LOL

 

VoodooJai

[thebadbad]

Your cookie is only available in the same directory as the script setting the cookie. And it expires when the browser is closed. Is that what you want?

[Voodoo Jai]

Your cookie is only available in the same directory as the script setting the cookie. And it expires when the browser is closed. Is that what you want?

 

I think so could you explain more.

[Voodoo Jai]

When I try to view the cookie using FF cookie editor its not there. I dont think its being set by the page as when I set the expression to FALSE it works fine.

 

VoodooJai

[thebadbad]

Remember the cookie only is set when the if conditions is met. Check if they are.

[Voodoo Jai]

After a bit of digging I get this error msg

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hsphere/local/home/poochima/lostmymenu.com/statistics2.php:3) in /hsphere/local/home/poochima/lostmymenu.com/statistics2.php on line 13

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hsphere/local/home/poochima/lostmymenu.com/statistics2.php:3) in /hsphere/local/home/poochima/lostmymenu.com/statistics2.php on line 15

 

it looks as though it wont let me set the cookie at line 13 of the pagewhy is this.

 

VoodooJai

[thebadbad]

Cookies are set with the headers, so you can't have any output to the browser before setcookie(). The error messages say you have.