Hi, My problem was a headers already sent error, which I fixed by redirecting the form POST to a seperate file instead of the same login.php. Thanks for all your help! 2008/10/13 Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> > On 12 Oct 2008, at 23:51, Micah Gersten wrote: > >> The question is, why aren't you using a session variable instead of >> cookies? That's one of the greatest features of PHP. >> > > If you're able to use cookies instead of sessions, and the size of the data > you're storing is fairly small, it's always better to use cookies. Sessions > complicate scalability. > > Ben: The *only* restriction around use of setcookie is that there cannot be > any *output* before it. You can have as much code as you want as long as it > doesn't output anything. If your script outputs content before your business > logic is done then (IMHO) it's wrong and needs to be rewritten anyway, > regardless of the need to set a cookie. > > -Stut > > -- > http://stut.net/ > > 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 >> >> >
