The question is, why aren't you using a session variable instead of cookies? That's one of the greatest features of PHP. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com 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. > > 2008/10/11 Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >> Ben Stones wrote: >> >> >>> I'm using cookies for my website script and upon users logging in a >>> cookie is set. Problem for me is that the cookie doesn't work due to >>> headers already sent. Is there anyway of fixing this because, there is >>> no possible way of adding setcookie() to the top of the PHP file when >>> the cookie is holding the username from the POSTed form. >>> >> This must be a self imposed restriction on your side, coz' otherwise I >> see no problem. >> >> >> /Per Jessen, Zürich >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >> > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
