Cookie help

[mightywayne]

Hello, everyone. I run a game. Recently I've gotten complaints that peoples' cookies have been expiring much earlier than they should be, and some people can't log in at all. My cookies are set like this:

 

$randomcookiethinger = rand(1, 999999999999999);
setcookie(user, $randomcookiethinger, time()+1600, "", "");

 

The $randomcookiethinger is used to make sure they aren't editing cookie information.

 

My check to see if the cookie expired is:

 

if (!isset($_COOKIE["user"]))  die('<font color="red"><b><big>Error:</big></b></font><font color="black"><br><br>You must log in first!');

 

 

Do you have ANY idea what could be wrong?

 

 

Edit:

 

Changed subject to conform to forum rules.

 

[revraz]

Yet you don't state how long they should last.

 

27 mins?

 

You could try putting quotes around user when you set it and use "/" as your domain.

[toplay]

+1600 is setting the cookie to expire in aprox. 26 minutes. If this is constantly being called, then it will keep setting the cookie ahead, but if only set once, then it will expire after 26 minutes.

 

[mightywayne]

Oh, right, forgot to mention I tried the quotes thing. You know, I seriously think it might be the domain. I'll come back if it starts up again, thanks.

[toplay]

You should not give empty string values for the fourth and fifth arguments to setcookie().

[mightywayne]

toplay, that's a great suggestion! I've tried it now (the bug still arose ) and hopefully I won't get anymore complaints. Gulp.

 

... however, if I do...

 

I think it might have to do with the fact that I've .httaccess'd my website to remove the www.

 

No matter what, you simply can't "get" to www. domain. I removed that due to complications in the forums and it's ugly anyway, is there a way to get around that when setting a cookie?

[revraz]

If you look at the cookie after it's set, does it show the www or not?

[mightywayne]

It doesn't, but, all the cookies in that list don't.

[toplay]

I hope you read the setcookie (link in my previous post) in the manual.

 

1) The code you show does not have quotes around the value "user".

2) Increase the time.

3) Set path to '/'.

4) Set domain (see manual).

 

Example:

 

$randomcookiethinger = rand(1, 999999999999999);

setcookie('user', $randomcookiethinger, time()+21600, '/', '.domain_name.com');