Script to place cookie works in firefox but not in Internet Explorer

[ghurty]

Hello,

 

I have been using the following script to find out what location the user has last chosen from a drop down list.

I testing it in firefox, and everything was working great.

However, when i tried to access the page using Internet Explorer, it would not save the cookie. When every I would go back to the page it would revert to the default location (new york).

I am using IE 7 with vista, I tried it with the privacy setting at medium and at low. It didnt work either which way.

 

Thanks

 

if(isset($_GET['activelocation'])){
$activelocation = $_GET['activelocation'];
setcookie('location', $activelocation, time()+60*60*24*30);
} elseif(isset($_COOKIE['location'])){
$activelocation = $_COOKIE['location']; //if the cookie is set, get the value
} else{
setcookie('location', 'New York, NY', time()+60*60*24*30);
$activelocation = "New York, NY";
}

[phpknight]

Have you checked for any white space, etc?  Put the error reporting way up and display it on the screen.  You might be sending headers early.

[ghurty]

Have you checked for any white space, etc?  Put the error reporting way up and display it on the screen.  You might be sending headers early.

 

Can you please explain a little clearer, I am pretty new at this, and the only way I got the initial script written properly was with some help from here.

 

Thank You

[phpknight]

Put the very first line in the script to

 

error_reporting("E_ALL");

 

Then, see what kind of output you get in both browsers.  Do you get any warnings on the screen?  This is assuming you have display_errors set to 1 in your php.ini file.  It is that way by default.  This is not good for production but good for debugging.