[SOLVED] Cookie data not displaying...

[acctman]

The cookie data is not being displayed in the register.html file, is there something wrong with my coding?

 

<?php

/* 

  File refer.php

  www.domain.com/refer.php?m=UserName

*/

 

$rmbuser = $_REQUEST['m'];

 

if (isset($_COOKIE["rmbreferral"]))

    header ("Location: http://www.domain.com/register.html");

else

    setcookie ("rmbreferral", $rmbuser, strtotime("+30 days")); 

    header ("Location: http://www.domain.com/register.html");

?>

 

I added this to the register.html file.

Referred By:<input type=text name=edit[ref_by] size=30 value='<? echo $_COOKIE['rmbreferral']; ?>'>

 

[Caesar]

Unless you've modified Apache to do so, the server isn't going to parse PHP syntax inside an HTML file, as PHP code.

[zipp]

AKA, save the file as a .php and not a .html.  You will need a php server/apache to view the file.

 

I use wamp5, its great. php, apache, and mysql.

 

heres a link to the home page

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

[acctman]

i'm using a linux server editing an exisiting register.html file, i'm looking at the file now and see that its parsing php coding in other locations like this

 

<? global $countries; foreach ($countries as $key => $value) echo "<option value='".$key."' ".($en['country'] == $key ? ' selected' : '').">".htmlentities($value['name'],ENT_QUOTES)."</option>"; ?>

 

so i'm thinking is my coding correct?

[corbin]

Where are these cookies being set?

 

And try viewing the source via a web browser on the page...

 

If you can see your php source and it's going through a webserver, then it's not being parsed....

[acctman]

if i put <? echo $_COOKIE['rmbreferral']; ?> outside of the input value property it shows the referral it just wont parsing if i put it as

<input type=text name=edit[ref_by] size=30 value='<? echo $_COOKIE['rmbreferral']; ?>'>

 

any idea why?

 

 

[acctman]

is 'echo' and print_r the only way to display the cookie data?

[acctman]

Solved:

I had to format the coding like below. it wouldn't work if all on one line.

<tr><td class=regform>Referred By:</td><td><input type=text name=edit[ref_by] size=30 value='

<?

echo $_COOKIE["rmbreferral"];

?>

' disabled></td></tr>