Problem with cookies. Need to encompass all domains

[morphboy23]

Ok so I'm setting up a cookie for whenever a user logs into my site. Here's what I have:

 

setcookie('bloowoologinemail', $result['email'], time()+259200, '/', '.bloowoo.com');

 

Now, I thought that since I have '.bloowoo.com' for the domain, this cookie would be loaded at both http://www.bloowoo.com and http://bloowoo.com  yet it's not.

How can I fix it so that it's the same cookie for both with and without www?

[btherl]

This doesn't answer your question, but it may solve your problem.  One option is to redirect all requests that hit bloowoo.com to hit www.bloowoo.com instead.  Then you don't need to worry about supporting two possible hostnames anywhere in your code.

[morphboy23]

How would I do that?

[btherl]

You can do this at the top of every script (this can be included in a global configuration file)

 

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] === 'bloowoo.com') {
  $new_url = str_replace('bloowoo.com', 'www.bloowoo.com', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI']);
  header('Location: ' . $new_url);
  exit(0);
}

 

Hopefully that'll work.  Different servers sometimes set different variables in $_SERVER, so you might need to adjust it.

[btherl]

It can also be done in apache using rewrite rules.. but I'm not clear on the details of doing it that way.