problem with cookies

kaits · 12. Januar 2003

So, I have problem to read a cookie from three different places:
http://www.bla.com/~something/a/a
http://www.bla.com/~something/a/b
http://www.bla.com/~something/a/c

The cookie is saved from http://www.bla.com/~something/a/c and I get the cookie information from there, everything is ok, but if I want to get the cookie information from http://www.bla.com/~something/a/a and http://www.bla.com/~something/a/b then the cookie cannot be found

why? what to do to get the cookie information??

socKe|bla · 12. Januar 2003

test this:

creating a cookie:
SetCookie("name","hello bla bla",time()+60*60*24*365); //for a year...

reading the cookie:
echo $_COOKIE['name'];

kaits · 12. Januar 2003

feel free to write in german

that doesn't work

I don't know, I post the cookie from http://www.bla.com/~a/a
And I want to get the cookie information to http://www.bla.com/~a/b and http://www.bla.com/~a/c but if I do echo $_COOKIE['name_of_cookie']; then the result is NOTHING, EMPTY

Could be there some problems with my server?

Valentin- · 12. Januar 2003

the problem you have is exactly the path. There
is an option which allows the cookie to access to all subdiretories.
Here a working example:

PHP:

setcookie("Name", "Value", time()+36000000, "/");

"/");

This part is doing what you want your cookie to do.