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Setting Cookies (remaining stateless)
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:12 am
by $var
Hello,
I am learning about setting cookies, and I have this script that doesn't appear to be passing the cookie, i checked the cookies in the browser properties. Can anyone see why it isn't passing?
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<?
session_save_path("/.");
session_start;
if (!isset($id)) {
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$randval = rand();
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/","/.",0);
}
$id = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["id"]
?>
Thanks
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:55 am
by feyd
your domain isn't a valid value last I checked.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:08 am
by raghavan20
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setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/","/.",0);
the cookie does not have a value
if you are unsure about using domain and paths, you can ignore those fields and use name, value and validity time alone.

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:10 am
by shiznatix
i have never seen a /. used for a directory, if you want the current directory then its ./ not /.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:17 am
by $var
i have a real directory, i just put that to say the root,
i didn't post the full directory.. assume that /. is my full root.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:19 am
by $var
here's the full code...
<?
session_save_path("/home/.ufowasherkiln/meaghanb/meaghanbent.com/development/session");
session_start;
// set cookie if not already set
// syntax: setcookie(name, value, expiration, path, domain, security);
// we are calling the cookie "id", assigning it the value $randval, current time plus 14,400 sec/4 hr. valid for any page in the root
if (!isset($id)) {
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$randval = rand();
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/","/home/.ufowasherkiln/meaghanb/meaghanbent.com/development",0);
}
?>
is it in the path of the domain that would most likely be causing the lack of cookie?
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:57 am
by raghavan20
i dont think that you can have any unix or window directory name(cookie relative path) that starts with a period
http://www.december.com/unix/tutor/filenames.html
forgive me, if its beyond my knowledge
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:15 am
by $var
i've tried so many combinations...
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/"."meaghanbent.com",0);
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"./"."meaghanbent.com",0);
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/"."/meaghanbent.com/development",0);
do any of these seem like they could work? the only reason i put the whole long path before was because when i was working with setting a session start path it needed the whole string to work.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:35 am
by raghavan20
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setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/"."meaghanbent.com",0);
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"./"."meaghanbent.com",0);
setcookie("id",$randval,time()+14400,"/"."/meaghanbent.com/development",0);
I see a dot operator instead of a comma before every domain path.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:23 pm
by $var
bingo
that was really stupid... i think that that was a post original post error...
thanks