Sessions and Cookies

[forumnz]

I'm using sessions and cookies for a login. I use the following code snippet as part of a login code and the code after to echo the cookie name, but it doesn't work. Why would this be? Thanks heaps, Sam.

 

<?php
if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {
		//Login Successful
		session_regenerate_id();
		$member=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
		$_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID'] = $member['id'];
		$_SESSION['SESS_LEVEL_ID'] = $member['lvl'];
		session_write_close();
		setcookie("user", "Alex Porter", time()+3600);
}
?>

 

<?php
echo $_COOKIE["user"];
?>

[haku]

Try echoing the cookie right after its set to make sure its actually being set properly. (not going to solve your problem, but will help track it down).

[p2grace]

Also, are you calling the cookie on the same page in which you're setting it?  If you're not you need to specify the save path in the cookie as well.

 

setcookie("user", "Alex Porter", time()+3600,"/");

 

BTW are you declaring the session to be started anywhere?  session_start() needs to be declared at the top of every page that uses a session variable.

[rameshfaj]

u can store the session simply:

session_start();

session_register("test");

$_SESSION["test"]="testing session";

 

You can retrieve the value of the session using:

$_SESSION["test"];

 

The cookies can be implemented as shown above.