On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben Stones wrote: > > > What I mean is I cannot use setcookie, I need to check if user > > credentials are correct first (which is BEFORE setcookie) and if so, > > set a cookie. I can't do that unless setcookie is first, but I need to > > check if the user credentials is correct. Furthermore I cannot use > > setcookie in the header as I want to display a message saying that > > they have successfully logged in in the correct area of my template. > > Well, I'm doing exactly that and it works just fine. This is a rough > outline of the flow: > > GET <login page> (form with user and password fields) > POST <login page> > > validate user+password, save in session > setcookie(). > redirect with 303 to <welcome page> > > GET <welcome page> > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Its likely just a little html or a blank line that is setting the headers before you are attempting to set the cookie -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
