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i made a script now from scratch
a user login/register
i cant figure out why the users cant see the secret pages

maybe i made a mistake but when they click on a secret page links it loads them back to the login page

below is a piece of the check login code

[code]if($num !=0) {
$cookie_name = "auth";
$cookie_value = "ok";
$cookie_expire = "0";
$cookie_domain = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $cookie_expire, "/", $cookie_domain, 0);

$display_block = "
<p><strong>Secret Menu:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href=\"secretA.php\">secret page A</a>
<li><a href=\"secretB.php\">secret page B</a>
</ul>";

} else {
header("Location: /show_login.html");
exit;
}[/code]

and here is the code that checks if the user can see the page "secretA.php"
[code]<?php
if($COOKIE[auth] == "ok") {
$msg = "<p>Welcome to secret page A, authorized user!</p>";
} else {
header("Location: show_login.html");
exit;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Secret Page A</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php echo "$msg"; ?>
</body>
</html>[/code]
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Are you certain you have it correct...

You missed out the parts I've included in [color=red]red[/color] below

[b]$[color=red]_[/color]COOKIE[[color=red]'[/color]auth[color=red]'[/color]][/b]

Both the underscore, and the single quotes should be there.

Also when setting the expire, try without the quotes... [code=php:0]$cookie_expire = 0;[/code]

Regards
Rich
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here is the new code but it is still not working
[code]<?php
if($_COOKIE['auth'] == "ok") {
$msg = "<p>Welcome to secret page A, authorized user!</p>";
} else {
header("Location: show_login.html");
exit;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Secret Page A</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php echo "$msg"; ?>
</body>
</html>[/code]
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I think i found where the problem is happening because i looked through my cookies and nothing was there[code]
$cookie_name = "auth";
$cookie_value = "ok";
$cookie_expire = "0";
$cookie_domain = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $cookie_expire, "/", $cookie_domain, 0);
[/code]
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ok, lets look back at the original code....

a) Have you tried to echo $num to make sure it's not equal to zero, as this is a condition of you setting the cookie?

b) Have you tried to echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to see if you get the expected result?

I'd bet the problem is option b)... Try just putting your domain in there $cookie_domain = "mydomain.com" as $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] gives the path and filename, not the domain.

Regards
Rich
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[quote author=HuggieBear link=topic=107694.msg432370#msg432370 date=1158015307]
ok, lets look back at the original code....

a) Have you tried to echo $num to make sure it's not equal to zero, as this is a condition of you setting the cookie?

b) Have you tried to echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to see if you get the expected result?

I'd bet the problem is option b)... Try just putting your domain in there $cookie_domain = "mydomain.com"

Regards
Rich
[/quote]
this was the problem thank you "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']"
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