Problem with cookies in PHP

Lord · #1 07-05-2009

I am creating a website in PHP. I want to send a variable from a form.

Code:

<form id="form1" method="post" action="form_results.php">

I already tried some of the methods that I know like setcookie, and $cookie, but nothing works at all. Is it possible? Currently I am assuming that my IE is blocking the cookies.

fellah · #2 07-05-2009

You know that there are also sessions, if your data are not confidential.

Internet Explorer is not blocking cookies, I suppose, your code is rather poorly managed.

If you want help, we'll have to see what you have done, and also some information on what exactly is the problem. Show your code, it will help us to correct you at the right point.

Lord · #3 07-05-2009

First page

HTML Code:

<head> 
</head> 
<form action="command_verification_information.php" method="post"> 
<p> 
<label> mail Address: 
<input type="text" name="mail" /> 
</label> </p> 
<p> 
<label> Password: 
<input type="text" name="Password" /> 
</label> </p> 
<p> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /> 
<input name="reset" type="reset" /> value="Clear" 
<?php setcookie ('mail', $_POST ['mail'], time () +3600)?> 
</p> 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

and

on the following pages where I retrieves the variable like this:

PHP Code:

<?php echo $_COOKIE ['username'];?>

fellah · #4 07-05-2009

setcookie sends headers and therefore must be called before any output (no text before the call).

Since you have not given the error message that PHP returns if you call after sending the text what you are getting, this is just an assumption.

If you get no error message, I suppose your server is misconfigured.

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