Re: question regarding cookies

Miles, et al: I realized my problem today, with the cookies. While reading the voluminous setcookie() function description (meaning the user notes at the bottom), I came across a sample script that dante@mpath.com had written to test to see if a browser is working with cookies correctly. I ran the script and it too proved that cookies were not being received by my browser (for whatever reason). So, in semi-frustration, I decided to do something else for a while and come back to the problem later. I do that a lot. So later I tried accessing the script that dante@mpath.com had written again, this time from a different computer. Because I was trying the page out on a non-local computer (previously I had been testing the page on the localhost -- the webserver itself), I had to enter the official IP address of the web server, rather than the default 127.0.0.1 for local hosts. Sure enough, the script gave me the signal that cookies were working again. I couldn't believe it. Why was it working on this other computer but not mine? Yep, for whatever reason it's because I used the official IP address this time. I went back to the localhost (the web server computer) and tried the pages again, both my original script and the one I got from the setcookie() comments. This time, I was properly prompted as to whether or not I wanted to accept a cookie. So it works! You just have to use the correct IP address. Okay, thanks Miles and hope this information serves someone else in the future. Now I can go home (almost 8 PM!!). -- Erik On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 04:40 PM, Miles Thompson wrote:

Erik, 1. Did you just try setting a cookie, plain, with no conditions. 2. Have you tested your conditions, or added a test, equivalent to what you do when you set the cookie? In other words, change setcookie to this .... if ($type_sel) { setcookie("font[type]", $type_sel, time()+3600) ; echo "type_sel: $type_sel; } 3. Are you getting any errors when you try to set the cookie? Miles On Wednesday 26 December 2001 05:07 pm, Erik Price wrote:

I used <code> <?php // cookie_test.php if ($type_sel) setcookie("font[type]", $type_sel, time()+3600) ; if ($size_sel) setcookie("font[size]", $size_sel, time()+3600) ; </code> (without the <code /> tags) This is a page which calls itself ($PHP_SELF) (is there a name for those?). And these variables are set by choosing from a select-list at a different part of this page. It's very basic, no if or case statements -- just basically a page that delivers a pair of values (font[type] and font[size]) to setcookie() and then checks to see if there is a cookie in the browser that matches this description. If there is, it outputs some simple data, and at the very bottom it echoes the contents of all variables so I can check and make sure everything's working. That's how I know that the setcookie() function doesn't seem to work -- there's no value in the cookie variables but if I echo the variables that I used ($type_sel and $size_sel) then it outputs the data. I'll read about IE, it's 5.1 for Mac OS X. Erik On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 03:12 PM, Miles Thompson wrote:

Erik What code are you using to set your cookie? Are you certain the expiry date is in the future? What browser are you using? There are notes in the online manual (www.php.net/setcookie()) regarding IE. Miles On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:01 pm, Erik Price wrote:

Hello, I am having a problem testing out the use of cookies. I'm using a tutorial from Wrox's "Beginning PHP4". It seems that I'm doing everything correctly, but when I try to access the page in my browser, I am not prompted as to whether or not I'd like to accept a cookie (which is something that I have configured my browser for), nor do the values that I assigned to the cookies show up in the test variables that I included on the page for just this purpose. In other words, I'm not sure that the setcookie() functions are working -- the variables that I set using "setcookie()" don't seem to be turning up on the page, but the standard form-based variables that I used (as values in the setcookie() function) turn up just fine. Do I need to have my web server specially configured for using cookies? I don't see anything in httpd.conf about this. My setup is as follows: Darwin 1.4.1 on PowerBook G3 (Bronze edition, no firewire) Apache 1.3.22 configured with --enable-module=most --enable-shared=max DSOs: mod_dav, mod_hfs_apple, mod_php (PHP 4.0.6)