Re: Weirdness with setcookie() (3rd time - come on people :)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Steve Nelson wrote: > correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the location is your problem. the > browser won't set the cookie until the header with the cookie > information is sent to it. If you redirect the user to another_file.php > it won't make a trip to the browser, in between the call to this file > and another_file.php. So when you call another_file.php there is no > cookie being sent to the browser. Does that make sense? Well, it doesn't make sense, since the cookie _was_ supposed to be set when you do a header("Location: "). PHP should and is smart enough to send the 'Set-Cookie: ' header whenever it sees that a new page is being asked. > What if you stored your cookie information in a session variable, then > called setcookie() from another_file.php? Essentially storing the > cookie information temporarily on the server until you were going to > make the trip back to the browser and set the value in a cookie on the > browser? I think that will solve your problem. Again, I'm trying to discover what is wrong with this script, before I think on changing all my back-end code related to this cookie, which would be a real pain. Thanks, Joao -- Joao Prado Maia Web Developer Kefta, Inc. T: (415) 391-6881 ext 8008 F: (415) 391-7079