setcookie problem

[brob]

hi here is my code

[code]import_request_variables("gP","");

$md5pass = md5($password);

include('db_stu_connect.php');

$getusername = mysql_query("select email1,passw_c from contacts_cstm,contacts where contacts.id = contacts_cstm.id_c and email1 = '$username' and contacts_cstm.passw_c = '$md5pass'");
$gotusername = mysql_fetch_row($getusername);

if ($gotusername[0] != "")
{
$username = $gotusername[0];

setcookie ("dbghstudent", "$username",0,"/");

?>
<script language="JavaScript">
parent.location='http://www.site.net/other_pages/test.php';
</script>
<?php
}
else
{[/code]

and for some reason it isn't setting the cookie can anyone see a reason for this?

Thanks

[Joe Haley]

0 as a timestamp is equil to January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT

So setting a cookie that expired isnt going to have the result you want ;)

http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php

[brob]

hi thanks for the reply,

It still doesn't seem to work even though I have set the time for an hour ahead i.e.

[code]setcookie ("dbghstudent", "$username",time()+36000,"/");[/code]

any ideas why this is?

For some reason its just not setting the cookie.

[Joe Haley]

are cookies enabled in your browser?

is the value of $username false?

[brob]

hi this is the code in full

[code]
<?php
import_request_variables("gP","");

$md5pass = md5($password);

include('db_stu_connect.php');

$getusername = mysql_query("select email1,passw_c from contacts_cstm,contacts where contacts.id = contacts_cstm.id_c and email1 = '$username' and contacts_cstm.passw_c = '$md5pass'");
$gotusername = mysql_fetch_row($getusername);

if ($gotusername[0] != "")
{
$username = $gotusername[0];

setcookie ("dbghstudent", "$username",time()+36000,"/");

?>
<script language="JavaScript">
parent.location='http://www.site.net/other_pages/test.php';
</script>
<?php
}
else
{
?>
sorry invalid login
<?
if ($gotusername[0] == "")
{
echo '<p><font color="#FF0000">Invalid username and/or password. Please try again.</font></p>';
}

?>
[/code]

I have used this system on another site and it worked but for this site it seems to fail

[crashmaster]

Problem can be, if this code isnt in HEADER>...
Setting COOKIE has to be done BEFORE ANY HTML CODE..

[brob]

yeah the cookie is set before any HTML is declaired