Re: Too Advanced? Re: Cookies & Hidden Image

Nothing is too advanced for this newgroup and there is not other better. I did not read your problem very carefully, but I think you are trying to set a cookie on a page that does a redirect, that is just impossible unless you do the redirect with a meta tag on the client. Anyway, if that suggestion doesn't do it for you, I once used the following function to set cookies and it worked for me: function MySetCookie ($CkyName, $CkyVal, $exp, $pth, $Domain) { $exp = strftime("%A, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S", $exp); $cookiestr = sprintf ("%s=%s; domain=%s; path=%s; expires=%s", $CkyName, $CkyVal, $Domain, $pth, $exp); $mycky = (isset($mycky) ? "$mycky\n" : "")."Set-Cookie: $cookiestr"; header($mycky); } Cheers, Diego ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole" <430ntr3k@aeontrek.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:57 PM Subject: [PHP] Too Advanced? Re: Cookies & Hidden Image > Is this question too advanced for this newsgroup? Is there a better > newsgroup to post this one too? > > Thanks, > > -- > Nicole > > > "Nicole" <430ntr3k@aeontrek.com> wrote in message > news:20030903001623.18738.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi, > > > > I am working on a script that uses cookie to store some info on the client > > side. The user will click a link that contains info about where the link > > was placed. The script will then store that info so that when the user > > returns later and makes a purchase, I can see where they came from. > > > > The problem I am having is this: > > > > The link is a redirect url that first goes to one domain where the cookie > is > > created by. Then they are taken to the site where products are sold. > > > > Then, after they make a purchase, they are taken to a thank you page that > > has a hidden tracker to track that sale. > > > > <img > > src=http://trackerurl.com/?var=1&var=2&blahbla height=0 > > width=> > > > > The image loads the script from a different domain (where the cookie was > > initialy created by). The problem now is that the script gets a blank > > cookie when using the hidden image to load the script. > > > > So does anyone know why this is happening? > > > > I have setCookie('CookieName', $value, $expires); > > > > Then I try to retrieve that cookie again later with > $_COOKIE['CookieName'] > > ... but the value stored is not there when the script is called from the > > hidden image. HOWEVER, the value is there when the script is called > > directly. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks!! > > > > Nicole > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >