PHP cookies not working

[jlr2k8]

Ok, so I'm making (or I guess... attempting to make :D) this login system using PHP. The login script, assuming the user is successfully authenticated, will generate a cookie with the username and a cookie with the password.

Here is part of the validation script:

[code]
if($_POST['password'] != "$password")
{
header("cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("location: ../user.php?content=l&s=f"); //redirect to login page, with a failure notification
}
else
{
$userName = $_POST["userName"];
$password = $_POST["password"];

setcookie("WFS2U", $userName);
setcookie("WFS2P", $password);

header("cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("location: ../index.php"); //redirect to home
}
[/code]

Then to display the cookies, I use: [code]echo $_COOKIE["WFS2U"];[/code]


I use PHP 5 which runs on IIS 6.0.

Thanks for your help,
Josh Rogers

[btherl]

It might be a path issue.  Try:

[code]setcookie("WFS2U", $userName, time()+60*60*24, '/')[/code]

That time()+60*60*24 sets it to expire in 1 day.  You have to include an expiry time in order to set the cookie path (yes, it doesn't make sense, it's because of the argument order).

Also, remember that $_COOKIE[] only contains cookies received from the browser.  You will only see these in the NEXT request, and not in the same request that you set the cookie.

[jlr2k8]

Hmm I noticed something though. The cookie only sets if I don't have header() on the same page. Why is that?