Making A Cookie

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    Hello i made a website with a database and all i got the login to work but when i refresh it logs me back out my friend told me i need to get a cookie but i dont no how to make one i just want when the user logs in he stays on for 1 hour can any one help me please Thanks Ryan
     
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    Kaizoku Well-Known Member

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    #3 
    
setcookie("logged_in", 1, time()+3600);
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    Then youll have to check that the cookie exists. This isnt fool proof and can be easily hacked, but it will work :)
     
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    golddragon Active Member

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  5. KGkiller

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    i put that in the notepad and saved it as cookie.php and it didnt work i put it in the htdocs folder and all
     
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    #6
    It important that the cookiecode comes before the <HTML> tag ;)
    Example in how it's done;
    this should be in the "login.php"
    
<?php
if($username==$getusername)
setcookie("logged_in", 1, time()+3600);
?>
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    This should be in all the pages that you need to login to get to;
    
<?php
if($_COOKIE["logged_in"])
{
//here you put all the site-code
}
else
echo "You are not logged in";
?>
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    hope it works ;D

    Tip:

    you could do like this;
    
<?php
if($_COOKIE["logged_in"])
{
?>
<!--- here you put all the site-html and you don't need the "echo" --->
<?php
}
else
echo "You are not logged in";
?>
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  7. KGkiller

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    That shows it so much better thank you im going to try it right now
     
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    it still does not work what i have is 2 iframes 1 on the left and 1 on the right the right 1 is logged in but the left 1 asks me to keep logging in because when u go to a page and you r not logged in it will bring u back to the login page if you want to look for yourself go to http://71.196.111.196 and the login name is test the password is test123 the right iframe will say error 404 page not found because i didnt make that page yet :p but the thing i need to work is the left iframe wich is members.php and i dont no why it wont work it worked fine when i was using abyss webserver and then i switched to apache and it didnt work right please help thanks :D
     
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  9. KGkiller

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    bump bump bump
     
    KGkiller, Dec 13, 2007 IP