LiamProductions Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Hey. I'm just doing something simple trying to store the input from one page into a cookie so it can be outputted on other pages heres the scripts: <form method="post" action="secondpage.php"> Name: <input type="text" name="name"> <input type="submit" value="go"> </form> and... <?php setcookie("user", "$name", time()+3600); extract($_COOKIE); if (isset($_COOKIE['user'])) echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE['user'] . "Enjoy the site<br />"; else echo "Hello Guest!!<br />" ?> Its just comming out as "Hello Guest!!" when the form is submitted i want it to come out as Welcome [NAME THEY INPUTTED] Enjoy the site but if they didnt input a name i want it to output Hello Guest!! any suggestions on what im doing wrong ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nloding Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Try using the $_POST superglobal. $name wasn't defined in that snippet. You also don't need extract(). <?php $name = $_POST['name']; setcookie("user", "$name", time()+3600); if (isset($_COOKIE['user'])) echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE['user'] . "Enjoy the site<br />"; else echo "Hello Guest!!<br />" ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NArc0t1c Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Theoretically there is nothing wrong with you're script. But two things, you are not checking if the user has actually submitted the form, and the "$name" could give an other message. Try this script, First script. <html> <head> </head> <body> <form method="post" action="secondpage.php"> Name: <input type="text" name="name"> <input type="submit" value="go"> </form> </body> </html> Second script. <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ $clean_name = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); if (empty($clean_name)){ echo 'You did not enter a name, please go back and do so.'; } else { $set_cookie = setcookie('Name', $clean_name, time()+3600); if (!$set_cookie){ echo 'Please enable cookies in you're browser.'; } } if (isset($_COOKIE['Name')){ echo 'Hello there ' . $_COOKIE['Name']; } else { echo 'Welcome Guest'; } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamProductions Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 I've got it working now and i have a cookie installed on my pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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