[zcrar70]

Hi,
i'm having a problem with my setcookie() instructions.
Although there are absolutely
no html tags in front of them,
for some reason PHP3 sends me back the message "oops...php3_SetCookie called after header has been sent"...

I do however use two "require" calls, one to a file with a .php extension, and one to a file with an .inc extension.

At the beginning of each files there's a Could the cookie failure and the include functions be related ?
In my text, I have even wiped out any HTML tags such as "bold, paragraph, line break" tags, even in "echo" commands, but to no avail

what am i doing wrong ???

thanks for any help
nick

[polman]

You said you were wiping out tags in echo commands...you can't output ANYTHING before you call setcookie. This includes echos. Since includes/requires do include that code in your script, you can't have anything being output in your includes either. As soon as something is sent to output, a header is set, thereby making your setcookie invalid. Setcookie must be something you do before anything else.

[zcrar70]

THanks for the tip polman....
in most cases tho, i have set the cookie expiry as follows:

$extratime=24*60*90; //sets cookie for 3 months

then
setcookies (..., time()+$extratime, .....);

this seems to have worked so far....

[zcrar70]

oops sorry polman hadn't noticed your post wasn't the same as your email ;p

thanks a lot for both tips..... I was indeed using print and echo to debug my script, and had suspected that that might be the problem...

well, now i know that's the problem ;p
i'll try that out now.... thanx a lot for your help ;p

nick