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phpsessioncookies
Chris
Chris

Reputation: 2465

website cookies not being recognized by php

I have a cookie I set when a user logs into my website and I also have a session ID for them, the only trouble right now is that the cookie I set doesn't seem to be able to be accessed. Although I can access the PHPSESSID cookie.

User Login:

$_SESSION['user_is_loggedin'] = 1;
setcookie('usr',  $usr->username, time()+3600*24*7, '/');

Accessing the cookie:

if(isset($_SESSION['user_is_loggedin']) && $_SESSION['user_is_loggedin'] == 1 ) { 
    echo $_COOKIE['usr'];

error: Undefined index: usr

I understand why it would error without setting the cookie, but it still errors even WITH the cookie set.

EDIT It seems that after I refresh the page the session exists but after that it clears the session. Do sessions not carry over after a page refresh?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 118

Answers (1)

Rob M.
Rob M.

Reputation: 36511

Make sure you are calling session_start(); and setting your cookie at the top of your script, not doing so will send headers and cause session_start() and setcookie() to fail.

Also, as @MiloLaMar pointed out, if you had error_reporting turned on you would've seen that it was failing:

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Upvotes: 2

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