johnharris Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I've looked around for anyone with the same problem and I can't see any solution so I decided to post. I have created this login form and it all works fine. I then added cookie support and that also worked. However, I cannot make it so that a cookie expires when the browser is closed. I have used a checkbox "remember_me" in the form, and have tested that it works ok (see the commented out echo statements in the submit section). If I login and no not check the button, then close the browser, then re-open, I am still logged in. I thought if no value for expiry was specified cookies expired on session (browser) close? Mine do not seem to be :( Below is login.php[code]<?php if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { require_once ('../mysql_connect.php'); function escape_data ($data) { global $dbc; if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')) { $data = stripslashes($data); } return mysql_real_escape_string($data, $dbc); } $message = NULL; if (empty($_POST['username'])) { $u = FALSE; $message .= '<p>You forgot to enter your username!</p>'; } else { $u = escape_data($_POST['username']); } if (empty($_POST['password'])) { $p = FALSE; $message .= '<p>You forgot to enter your password!</p>'; } else { $p = escape_data($_POST['password']); } if ($u && $p) { $query = "SELECT user_id, first_name FROM users WHERE username='$u' AND password=MD5('$p')"; $result = @mysql_query ($query); $row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_NUM); if ($row) { if (isset($_POST['remember_me'])) { setcookie ('first_name', $row[1], time()+36000, '/', '', 0); setcookie ('user_id', $row[0], time()+36000, '/', '', 0); header ("Location: index.php"); //echo '<p>ticked</p>'; } else { setcookie ('first_name', $row[1], NULL, '/', '', 0); setcookie ('user_id', $row[0], NULL, '/', '', 0); header ("Location: index.php"); //echo '<p>Not ticked</p>'; } } else { $message = '<p>Error. Your username/password is incorrect.</p>'; } mysql_close(); } else { $message .= '<p>Please try again.</p>'; } } if (isset($message)) { echo $message; }?><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT/index.php']; ?>" method="post"> <p>Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="15" maxlength="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['username'])) echo $_POST['username']; ?>" /></p> <p>Password: <input type="password" name="password" size="15" maxlength="20" /></p> <input type="checkbox" name="remember_me" /> Keep me logged in (requires cookies to be enabled) <div align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login" /></div> </form>[/code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shocker-z Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 why not use a session instead of cookie? these auto expire when browser is closed :)Simpler than playing with cookiesRegardsLiam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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