make sure the cookie is being set in your login code would be 1st step

it does. I use

Code:

How do you know it set the cookie? Test it by something like,

if(isset($_COOK IE['login_cook ie'])) {
echo('cookie WAS set');
} else {
echo('cookie NOT set');
}

ok I tested it it like this

Code:

<?
if($_GET['p'] == "test&qu ot {
if(isset($_COOK IE['login_cook ie'])) {
echo('cookie WAS set');
} else {
echo('cookie NOT set');
}

}
if($_GET['p'] == "set&quo t {
$joined = "ki[]&qu ot;.md5('passw ord');
setcookie('log in_cookie', $joined, 2147483647, '/', 'www.tragical. net');
}
if($_GET['p'] == "del&quo t {
setcookie('log in_cookie', "", time()-21474836 47, '/', 'www.tragical. net');
}
?>

You might need to refresh after the cookie is set? The cookie is set in login.php, then header() redirects to the home page. In your page_header code of home page check if cookie was set.

also explore php.net/setcoo kie and read through that a bit and through the comments. I have it setup exactly as the tutorial is, and it seems to work for everyone.

Also consider re-examining your page_header code and login code to make sure nothing was left out and that the variables match up to ones you use.

some reason this stuff still isn't working

post in seperate code boxes your page header code and your login code

header

Code:

login

Code:

if(isset($_SES SION['username ']) && isset($_SESSION ['password']) ) {
header("L ocation: ?page=";
}

if(isset($_POST ['submit'])) {

if(!$_POST['us ername']) die("Erro r: You must enter your username before logging in.";
if(!$_POST['pa ssword']) die("Erro r: You must enter your password before logging in.";

if(!empty($_POS T['stay_in']) ) {
$joined =''.$_POST[' username'].'[ ]'.md5($_POST[ 'password']). '';
setcookie('log in_cookie', $joined, 2147483647, '/', '.www.tragical .net');

} //end if
//2147483647
//verify user...
$get_user = mysql_query(&q uot;SELECT * FROM `members` WHERE username = '".$_POS T['username'] ."' AND

user_password = '".md5($ _POST['passwor d'])."' ";
$q = mysql_fetch_obj ect($get_user);
if(!$q) die("Logi n Failure: An error occured, please verify your username and password are correct."< img src=http://www. allsyntax.com/f orums/images/sm ilies/wink.gif border=0>;

//set session variables
$_SESSION['log ged_in'] = 1;
$_SESSION['use rname'] = $_POST['userna me'];
$_SESSION['pas sword'] = $_POST['passwo rd'];
session_write_c lose();

header("L ocation: ?page=usercp&q uot;

} else {

When you store the cookie, you use [] between the username and password. I would change that back to | . So thats an adjustment on line 5 in your page header, and line 11 on login.php. Also on your login.php on line 12 where you set the cookie, take the www out.

I dont know if those changes will make a difference, but right off the top those are variances in your code compaired to the tutorial.

ah now I got it, the [] is the problem with it all, It turns out that when firefox or any other browser for that matter wont read the same as [] but as the code such as like %59 or something

Cool, so it worked? I was also affraid php may try to interpret [] as an array element or something. We use the | just to seperate username from password so it could be almost anything. | makes sense to me. Hope you got it working.

  bs0d said...

< i> Cool, so it worked? I was also affraid php may try to interpret [] as an array element or something. We use the | just to seperate username from password so it could be almost anything. | makes sense to me. Hope you got it working.

nvm now its not working lol. it decides to end with the session >:O


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Nevermind about that post.

It works, I found out in the frustration of the cookie I renamed one of the cookie explode to see if there was an error, now it works
Thanks.

I changed it like this :


Code: