Chris, I retract that "no dice." It did work after all. Thank you so
very much.
FYI, I was encountering the problem in both Firefox (1.5) and IE (6) on the PC.
Again, thanks a lot.
Andrew
On 8/15/06, Andrew Darby <adarby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, Chris. I tried this; no dice.
On 8/14/06, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Darby wrote:
> > Hello, all. This is more of a php problem, but i'm not on the general
> > list and um the cookie problem is part of a php/mysql application . .
> > . .
> >
> > So, I have an application where university faculty can enter their
> > publications in a "scholarly database", but this data can also be
> > entered by a proxy (i.e., grad student or secretary). I have a number
> > of cookies that I set and then kill again when someone hits the logout
> > button:
> >
> > setcookie ('becool', '', time() - 86400);
> > setcookie ('user_id', '', time() - 86400);
> > setcookie ('andyouare', '', time() - 86400);
> > setcookie ('supereditor', '', time() - 86400);
> > setcookie ('now_editing', '', time() - 86400);
> > header('Location: index.php?type=logout');
> >
> > (the user_id is the id of the person who logged in (through LDAP), the
> > now_editing is the id of the person whose records are being edited
> > (i.e., staff member #19 is the user, but they're editing faculty
> > member #34's work).)
> >
> > When I look at the cookies on the page they're redirected to (through
> > the firefox web developer extension), they're all gone. And the
> > becool cookie is definitely unset (or else you'd be able to visit
> > pages that require authentication). But when someone logs back in,
> > and I do my check to see if the person logged in is acting as
> > themselves or on the behalf of someone, the cookie is magically set to
> > the last person that had now_editing set. If the browser window is
> > killed, however, the cookie really is killed.
>
> If you're using IE it could be related to this issue:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=111396707507122&w=2
>
> Try adding a path to the end even if it's just '/'.
>
> setcookie ('now_editing', '', time() - 86400, '/');
>
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