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I'm learning php now, and i'm trying to set cookie's, but it won't work

code:

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<form action="cookie.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="naam" value="<?php $_COOKIE["naam"] ?>">
<input type="submit" value="Cookie Instellen" name="Submit">
<input type="button" onClick="<?php setcookie ("Naam","",time()-3600)?>" value="Cookie Wissen">
</form>

<?php
//cookies instellen
setcookie ("Naam", $_POST["naam"],time()+86400);  /* onthoud naam voor 24 uur*/
setcookie ("Ipadres", $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], time()+86400); /*onthoud ip voor 24 uur */

//dingen naar de pagina printen
print "Als je binnen 24 uur op deze pagina terugkomt, weet het script je naam nog en je ipadres";
print "<br>" . "Naam: " . $_COOKIE["naam"] . "<br>" . "Ip-adres: " . $_COOKIE["Ipadres"];

?>

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Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

quote:

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Originally posted by Ezra
value="<?php $_COOKIE["naam"] ?>">

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You are missing an "echo"

code:

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value="<?php echo $_COOKIE["naam"] ?>">

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Edit: I now see the problem, I didn't look at it closely before.

You can't use JavaScript events with PHP. "onClick" is JavaScript/VBScript ONLY.

You can set the cookie via JavaScript, though. Also the page needs to be sent to the server in order for PHP to get the cookie.

Ur right , but that won't fix it , cause i'm printing the cookies at the end too...

EDIT: I didn't know i couldn't mix javascript and php the way I did, but that button was just to delete the cookie. And now I removed the whole button it still doesn't work

Cookie names are case-sensitive. You're calling naam, but you're setting Naam. Maybe correcting that will make it work.

Edit: I'm stupid today.

I can see that my code was full of stupid bugs , and i corrected all of them... BUT, it's still not working

My updated code

code:

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<form action="cookie.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="naam" value="<?php echo $_COOKIE["naam"]?>">
<input type="submit" value="Cookie Instellen" name="Submit">

</form>

<?php
//cookies instellen
setcookie ("Naam", $_POST["naam"], time()+86400, "/", "", 0);  /* onthoud naam voor 24 uur*/
setcookie ("Ipadres", $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], time()+86400, "/", "", 0); /*onthoud ip voor 24 uur */

//dingen naar de pagina printen
print "Als je binnen 24 uur op deze pagina terugkomt, weet het script je naam nog en je ipadres";
print "<br>" . "Naam: " . $_COOKIE["Naam"] . "<br>" . "Ip-adres: " . $_COOKIE["Ipadres"];

?>

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Does it give any errors? Or just plain not work

You're hitting submit or refreshing the page?

I too have a problem for not seeing obvious mistakes, so maybe that's why I can't point it out.

try the updated code for urselve http://school.tsdme.nl/cookie.php

And yes I am hitting Submit , and after that i even tried submitting and then refreshing and after that even opening the page fresh-fresh

@Madman, the page loads ok, but it won't set the cookies

code:

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setcookie ("Naam", $_POST["naam"], time()+86400, "/", "", 0);

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Thats ment to be a boolean not a integer

so

code:

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setcookie ("Naam", $_POST["naam"], time()+86400, "/", "", False or True);

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would work (Note: chose between true or false)

Also you dont have to set all the parameters, unless you specifically need to controll the path and securty etc.. you could use

code:

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setcookie ("Naam", $_POST["naam"], time()+86400);

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quote:

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Originally posted by Ezra
<?php echo $_COOKIE["naam"]?>

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Should be Naam.