Bug #69006 [Fbk]: cookie problem

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69006&edit=1 ID: 69006 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported by: simon_freedom125 at hotmail dot com Summary: cookie problem Status: Feedback Type: Bug Package: Session related Operating System: windows PHP Version: 5.6.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Cookies are super-easy to debug. Just look at the Set-Cookie header in the response. What the browsers are doing is not relevant here. If you have the right cookie name and the expiry is correct, then PHP is doing its job. Anything else has nothing to do with PHP. So, please restate the bug in terms of the Set-Cookie output you are getting and explain why it is not what you expected. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-02-11 01:13:13] simon_freedom125 at hotmail dot com Ok, I was hoping I did something wrong so I decided to give your method another try. The results were slightly different this time, chrome, mozilla, and IE manage to maintain the session on subsequent click on the same website. But, now all the browser failed to register the extended time which was given to last even after until a browser is closed, like with the following: session_set_cookie_params(time()+3600*24,'/',NULL,TRUE); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-02-08 13:10:47] simon_freedom125 at hotmail dot com of course I did a session start. Otherwise, I would not be giving a description that it works when a user did not check the 'remember me'. Tried your method with session_set_cookie_params( some params), did not work as well. It's not like I mess with the settings of IE, strange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-02-08 05:40:38] yohgaki@php.net Have you tried what I wrote? Why your test script does not have session_start()? W/o session_start(), session is useless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-02-08 03:34:06] simon_freedom125 at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ The actual version of php is actually 5.6.3 The session does not persist when I set cookie for the session id to last not until the browser is closed. example, to last for a day. When the session id is set to last until the browser is closed, the session start works on subsequent page request. Tested on 3 browsers - chrome, mozilla, and IE. This only happens on IE. realized this problem after upgrading from php 5.4+ I used the session_name function to change the default, so I am not using PHPSESSID. Not sure what is the actual cause. Test script: --------------- session_name('sessionID'); setcookie('sessionID',$sessionID,time()+3600*24,'/',NULL,true); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-02-08 00:55:27] simon_freedom125 at hotmail dot com I don't think it is a problem with session_set_cookie_params(). lets say i set 3 different cookies to last for a day. only the sessionID which I renamed away from the default of PHPSESSID does not persist. Just another clearer example. I created a script which allows user to log into their account. A user check remember me so the script extend the cookie time. A total of 3 cookies named, sessionID, name, and a random value, with the same expiry time were given to the client browser. Now, everything is still fine over here. Bug happens after the user clicked log in and then chose to proceed to another request after being redirected from the log in page, like a refresh or clicking on another link. when I called $_COOKIE['sessionID'], undefined call to sessionID error was shown on the screen. Surprising, only the sessionID cookie was affected. The other 2 can be seen in the browser cookie. Not opting remember me will solve the problem, which is weird, only on IE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69006 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69006&edit=1