php cookie's AAAhhhh!!!

EOA_Mushy

Hey all, im new to php and am haveing one of those problems....

It looks and sounds simple which is what is driveing me crasy, All i want to do is set a cookie in a php script and retrieve it before loading a page.

Tested every line of code surounding this, which work fine...

php page....

setcookie("login",$randy,time()+3600,"/project","localhost",0);

Page to be loaded...

if(!isset($_COOKIE[login])){
header("Location: http://localhost/project/login.html");
exit;
}

This works as i keep geting redirected back to the login page (cookie not set)
Why? *pulls tuft of hair out*

seamus

My staple for troubleshooting cookies is to set the cookie with the minimal amount of info.
So the below will set the cookie for the current host.

setcookie("login",$randy,time()+3600);

also $_COOKIE[login]? Don't you mean $_COOKIE?

EOA_Mushy

seamus wrote:

also $_COOKIE[login]? Don't you mean $_COOKIE?

I did say it was one of those problems.... :rolleyes:

Cheers