[SOLVED] My Cookies are crumbling

[btr2007]

Me again, my problem has now moved on to the cookies and the setting of them.

 

The login is working and that is great but I have code which is meant to change the login area to say 'you are now logged in' and of course have a logout button.

 

But the problem is my cookies don't seem to be setting correctly.

 

setcookie('user', $client, time()+60*60*24*30, "/", ".mydomain.com/", 1); 
setcookie('pass', $pass, time()+60*60*24*30, "/", ".mydomain.com/", 1);  
header("Location: http://www.brickcollection.com/btr/test.php"); 

 

Then whenever any other page loads it executes this code:

 

if (isset($_COOKIE['user']) && isset($_COOKIE['pass'])) { 
$client = mysql_real_escape_string($_COOKIE['user']); 
$pass = mysql_real_escape_string($_COOKIE['pass']); 

 

It then checks what type of user you are etc.

 

At the end of the above if stmt I added an else saying 'print 'No Cookies Set';'

 

When I then test the page even after logging it still says the that you are not logged in, but I know that i am because it has redirected to the logged in page.

 

 

 

 

[revraz]

This

 

".mydomain.com/"

 

should just be "/" if you want it for the whole site.

[revraz]

setcookie ('user', $client, time () + (60*60*24*30),'/');

 

 

[btr2007]

that may have done it, it comes up saying you are logged in and everything but once the cookies are set it has errors along the lines of

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /index.php:7) in /check-user.php on line 18

 

and also one for line 19

 

line 18 and 19 are the lines of code that set the cookies

[atticus]

I'm a noob, but I did have a similar problem with sessions and logins.  I learned from someone on this forum that if the page is encoded in: UTF-8, that it will sometimes give that error.  When I changed my encoding in my text editor to ANSI, my problem was solved.  Maybe it will work for you?

[revraz]

That error means you sent output to the browser before you set the cookie.

[btr2007]

So where is it best to set the cookies?

 

In the check-user.php file nothing is outputted to the browser. Is it because in index.php check-user.php isn't called until further down the page, in the middle of all the html.

 

I'm getting this error in another place as well, but I think once one is sorted i'll be able to sort the other one

 

[revraz]

You just need to rearrange your code so the cookie is set before that page or includes sent output to the browser.