Writing cookie to disk

[Mike Wilcox]

I am using setcookie() to put a cookie on the visitor's machine. When I do
so, the cookie is set for that browser session, but not written to disk.
What am I missing to write it to the disk? Code snippet:

$cookset = setcookie("orig pbx", $_POST['pbx'], 0)

Thanks,

Mike

[Pedro Graca]

Re: Writing cookie to disk

Mike Wilcox wrote:[color=blue]
> I am using setcookie() to put a cookie on the visitor's machine. When I do
> so, the cookie is set for that browser session, but not written to disk.
> What am I missing to write it to the disk?[/color]

You're missing a review of the setcookie() function, namely its third
parameter.

http://www.php.met/setcookie

[color=blue]
> Code snippet:
>
> $cookset = setcookie("orig pbx", $_POST['pbx'], 0)[/color]

Some browsers can be configured to only allow session cookies (or
convert cookies that expire in the year 2038 to be transformed into
session cookies).
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[Mike Wilcox]

Re: Writing cookie to disk

Pedro Graca <hexkid@dodgeit .com> wrote in
news:slrncqnf8a .vuv.hexkid@ID-203069.user.uni-berlin.de:
[color=blue]
> Mike Wilcox wrote:[color=green]
>> I am using setcookie() to put a cookie on the visitor's machine. When
>> I do so, the cookie is set for that browser session, but not written
>> to disk. What am I missing to write it to the disk?[/color]
>
> You're missing a review of the setcookie() function, namely its third
> parameter.
>
> http://www.php.met/setcookie
>
>[color=green]
>> Code snippet:
>>
>> $cookset = setcookie("orig pbx", $_POST['pbx'], 0)[/color]
>
> Some browsers can be configured to only allow session cookies (or
> convert cookies that expire in the year 2038 to be transformed into
> session cookies).[/color]

That would seem to be the case. Setting it to expire in 120 days has
done the trick.

Thanks for the info.

Mike

[Peter]

Re: Writing cookie to disk

Hi
IUf you don't specify an expiry period and cookie domain it will revert
to a session cookie.

Put this in the header and it will write a cookie to disk that expires
after 1 week


$days=7;
$cook_expiry = time()+(60*60*2 4*$days);
setcookie("cook ie_name",
"cookie_val ue",
$cook_expiry,
"/",
".your_cookie_d omain.com");


Mike Wilcox wrote:[color=blue]
> I am using setcookie() to put a cookie on the visitor's machine. When I do
> so, the cookie is set for that browser session, but not written to disk.
> What am I missing to write it to the disk? Code snippet:
>
> $cookset = setcookie("orig pbx", $_POST['pbx'], 0)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike[/color]