PHP Cookie Issue

[kath]

Hello

I have a login php where I prompt the user for a userid and password.
They then click the submit button and it forwards them to a file
check_login.php.

In this file I check to see if the login is valid and if so, set a cookie

setcookie("myCookie", "True", time()+3600);

I need this coookie to be carried forward. When the user clicks another
link on the check_login.php page, it takes them to
menu.php. Here I try to read the cookie:

echo "The cookie value is ".$_COOKIE['myCookie'];

There is no value in the cookie and I don't know what I've done wrong.

[fristi]

Hello

I have a login php where I prompt the user for a userid and password.
They then click the submit button and it forwards them to a file
check_login.php.

In this file I check to see if the login is valid and if so, set a cookie

setcookie("myCookie", "True", time()+3600);

I need this coookie to be carried forward. When the user clicks another
link on the check_login.php page, it takes them to
menu.php. Here I try to read the cookie:

echo "The cookie value is ".$_COOKIE['myCookie'];

There is no value in the cookie and I don't know what I've done wrong.

can you try this line:

var_dump($_COOKIE['myCookie']);

Then you'll see if it is really empty.


Also check if your browser is set to accept coockies.

[cranial-bore]

setcookie returns a bool. Is your call returning true?

if(setcookie('myCookie', 'True', time()+3600)) {
  echo "Cookie set";
}
else echo "Problem setting cookie"; 

Also, if your subsequent pages just look for the value 'True' in a cookie your site is going to be very insecure. The cookie could easily be spoofed. Instead you might want to store the username and password hash in the cookie and validate those on each page request.