Cookies

In short: How do cookies work?

In long:
I want to set a cookie as a user logs into the system, i want the cookie(or cookies) to hold his username and password, then i want him to be able to go where ever without having to re-enter his username/password either untill he logs out, or his cookie expires..

any suggestions?

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-Mike
Thanks for any help
[url]http://209.161.8.36/

Here is some example code I've whipped together for you....

<?
if($action == "setcookie") {
setcookie("vis_name", $visitorname, time() + 3600);
// expires in one hour
}
if (isset($vis_name)):
// if cookie is set, display it
?>

<font face="Verdana" size="1">
<b><center>
<?
$msgline = "The Company welcomes " . $vis_name . "!";
print("$msglinen");
?>
</b></center>
</font>

<? else: ?>

<div align="center"><center>
<font face="Verdana" size="1">
Personalize Your Company! [Enter Name Below]<br>
<form><b>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="setcookie">
<input type="text" name="visitorname" size="15" value="Insert Name" tabindex="1" maxlength="35">
<input type="submit" value=" OK! " tabindex="2">
</font></b></strong>
</form>
</div></center>

<? endif; ?>

Hope this code is a little help on what cookies are all about, and if you want, stop on over to http://evilwalrus.com and check it out, we offer tons of free scripts (user submitted) and I've implemented my little "cookie system" on my site, just to spice things up a bit...



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Evil Walrus
AKA: Andrew Heebner

Ok, cookies i understand now, i was up till 3am writing my little script, it's up to about 500 lines now, uhm..one thing, how would i make a cookie set for a ip address domain, e.g. 10.1.1.1
cuz, i dont exactly have a domain name for my server yet...

I don't have a clue how to use cookies for IP address's.. probably something along these lines....

<?
$server = "10.1.1.1";
setcookie("COOKIE_NAME", $cookie_val, $server);
?>

I really don't have a clue on this one... lets leave it to these BrainDump braniacs URL



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Evil Walrus
AKA: Andrew Heebner

well, that does'nt work, i know for a fact, i've tried that already hehe , if we must, for now i just have vhosts setup with apache on my server both pointing to the same ip, so it covers both my hostnames ..just, alotta extra work involved there..oh well, it's off to formatting the HTML to make the site look perty

# the following will set the cookie in the root directory of your domain(you can replace that with ipnumber).

setcookie("vis_name", $visitorname, time() + 3600,"/","www.yourdomain.com","");



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SR -
shiju.dreamcenter.net

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..."