Re: setcookie BUG w/ IE 5.5, 6.0 & Netscape!

Kris Wilkinson wrote: > Just recently I've noticed an issue with setcookie. My scripts which > normall ran : > > setcookie ("myCookie","Blah","time()+7201"); > > Are killing the cookie immediately after you close the browser window, or > access another https:// site. It appears as though the life of > the cookie > is actually not being set, and is based entirely around the life of the > browser window which it was originally called. > > if you leave the window open, and attempt at access the cookie from > another window, the cookie does not exist. > > IDEAS? PHP GODS? :) 1. You have to take the quotes off the time stuff, so it turns into a number, not a meaningless string. 2. IE is broken because MS engineers can't read the Netscape cookie spec to save their lives, so if you specifiy a time, you must specify a path , '/' as well. (*SOME* versions of IE work, some don't). Right now, your time argument is simply turning into 0, because you are using a string where it should be a number, and 0 means "session cookie" which means it dies with the browser quitting. The cookie *SHOULD* be there from another window of the same browser version -- I dunno how you messed that up. -- Like music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm