Cookie php code not working!

hojkoff_101 · Mar 12, 2010

Can someone tell me why this won't work? I can't understand why it won't install a cookie on my browser! I've tried Safari, Firefox and Opera and no luck on any of them!

PHP:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>Cookie</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php 

	setcookie("test", 45, time()+(3600));
	echo "This page has loaded correctly! But is thy cookie there!";
	
?>
<br />
<a href="cookie_read.php">Check that cookie!</a>
</body>
</html>

The link is to a page which has been coded to show the value of the cookie but it doesn't display any value! When I check the cookies stored on my browser it isn't there either!

Any ideas as to why it's all going wrong!!!!!

Thanks guys!

Andy

BrandonSkyPim · Mar 9, 2012

Same with me. And safari 4.0.3 does not support PHP

Groovetube · Mar 12, 2012

you need to out the setcookie call above output or any html tags, whitespace etc. much the same kind of issues can affect this call like the header calls. It's sent with the html headers.

Take that setcookie line and put it up above everything, no whitespace.

ie:

PHP:

<?php setcookie("test", 45, time()+3600); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Cookie</title>
</head>

<body>
This page has loaded correctly! But is thy cookie there!
    <br />
<a href="cookie_read.php">Check that cookie!</a>
</body>
</html>

vansmith · Mar 12, 2012

BrandonSkyPim said:
Same with me. And safari 4.0.3 does not support PHP

Every browser "supports" PHP since it doesn't actually interact with PHP. PHP is a server side technology - all the heavy lifting is done on the server. It works by interpreting the code and returning the corresponding HTML. For instance, let's take the following PHP code:

Code:

echo "<div id='test'>Hello</div>";

When the page with that code is requested, the PHP interpreter is called on the server, it figures out that you want to echo out a div with some text and sends the following to your browser:

Code:

<div id='test'>Hello</div>

Cookie php code not working!

hojkoff_101

BrandonSkyPim

Groovetube

vansmith

Senior Member

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