PHP - A Cookie Problem

Hello,

I am new to this forum and joined in hope I could get some help in relation to some PHP problems I have stumbled across within my work. I am currently working on an online store I am building from scratch. I have already built the basic system behind it and am now starting to implement a more user friendly design to it with JS validation, stylesheets and imaging layout.

I have however come across a COOKIE problem with my login script. The purpose behind it is to only allow users into an area if they have logged in and declared cookies. I declare the cookies with 'setcookie()' then try and retrieve them with '$_COOKIE['firstname'];'.

However since implementing my new design layout it has stopped being able to retrieve the cookies. Here is some of the script. I would greatly appreciate any help given ...

Login.php
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<?php
//Validating input details and executing mysql query
if ($username && $pass)
{
mysql_connect("$dhost","$dname","$dpass"); //Connection to mysql server
@mysql_select_db("$dbase") or die ("Unable To Select Database!"); //Connection to stated database
$query = "SELECT firstname, lastname, username FROM userdata WHERE password=SHA('$pass')"; //Retrieves firstname and lastname for username and password combination
$result = @mysql_query ($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array ($result,MYSQL_NUM); //Return a record, if applicable
if ($row) {
setcookie('firstname', $row[0], time()+3600);
setcookie('lastname', $row[1], time()+3600);
setcookie('username', $row[2], time()+3600); //Set the cookies
echo "<p class='Body-error-P'><span class='Body-text-T'>Login successful. If you are not redirected in 15 seconds click <A HREF='./index.php'>here</A></span></p>";
print "<meta HTTP-EQUIV='REFRESH' content='5 url=./index.php'>";
} else { //no record matched the query
echo "<p class='Body-error-P'><span class='Body-text-T'>The username and password you entered are not valid.</span></p>";
}
mysql_close(); //close database connection
}
}

Index.php
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<?php
include_once ("config.php");
if(isset($_COOKIE['firstname'])) //if not cookie present, redirect the user
{
echo "<p class='Body-text-P'><span class='Body-text2-T'>You are now logged in, <b>".$_COOKIE['firstname'].' '.$_COOKIE['firstname']."</b></span</p>";
} else {
echo '<p class="Body-text-P"><span class="Body-text-T">You are not logged in at this current time. Please login or register.</span</p>';
}
?>
Let me know if you need anymore coding...

I'm having trouble setting a cookie in php.  When a user logs in I send an ajax request to an file which contains this code to set the cookie


setcookie("userCookie", $_SESSION['username'], time()+60*60*24*30);


However when I include the following code to check to see if the cookie has been set is says is hasn't


if(isset($_COOKIE['userCookie'])) {
echo("cookie set");
} else { echo("cookie not set"); }


I check to see that my browser is accepting cookies and it definitely is so I'm not sure what causing the problem. 

Thanks for any help. 

I have a web application in which there are two php files index.php and  include.php .

include.php is loaded to a DIV tag inside index.php on click of button using Jquery . Both these php files share a common varible through cookie which is used to keep track of the data retrived by include.php . This variable will be updated each time include.php retrives data .
These php code work fine  Mozilla and chrome  but not in IE . When i checked the cookie value it is same through out without setting .

Please help .

Thanks in advance ,
Rahul

Hello community,

I am trying to create a login script, but in the HTTP Header it only sends the last cookie set.

I first tried this code:

$expire=time()+60*60*24;
setcookie("gcg_user",$userid,$expire);
setcookie("gcg_name",$username,$expire);
setcookie("gcg_pass",$password,$expire);

But it only set the gcg_pass cookie. Someone else suggested me to use header():

$expire=date(DATE_RFC822,time()+60*60*24);
header('Set-Cookie: gcg_user="'.$userid.'"; expires='.$expire.';');
header('Set-Cookie: gcg_name="'.$username.'"; expires='.$expire.';',false);
header('Set-Cookie: gcg_pass="'.$password.'"; expires='.$expire.';',false);

But again it only sets the last cookie.
The first code has been working fine on another server. Do I have to adjust anything in php.ini?

Running XAMPP Lite:
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###### Apache Friends XAMPP Lite (Basis Package) version 1.7.3 ######
  + Apache 2.2.14 (IPV6 enabled)
...
  + PHP 5.3.1 (PEAR)
...


Any help on that? Thanks in Advance!