[phplib] Using cookies with phplib to enable automatic login: solved! From: Douglas Forrest (dougforrest <email protected>)
Date: 11/21/00

Code was correct but testing was wrong.

Cookie was being set properly but was not displayed until refresh.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Forrest
To: phplib <email protected>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Using cookies with phplib to enable automatic login

I want the main page of my site to recognize a returning user (like Amazon, etc.) without forcing them to re-login on every visit. There was a series of questions about this earlier this year (look up "permanent session") but the answers seemed to require abandoning phplib, which I do not want to do.

I am using phplib to require login and authentication on the user preferences page (functionality like Amazon does with account preferences) but session data expires when the browser is closed and user-specific data, with or without a "nobody" default, requires login as the appropriate user.

Using modifed versions of the examples classes, I am trying to use cookies like this:

<?php page_open(array("sess" => "my_Session", "auth" => "my_Challenge_Crypt_Auth", "user" => "my_User"));
$expiredate = mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2004);
SetCookie("MyCookie", $auth->auth["uid"], $expiredate,"/",".mydomain.com");

-- rest of page printed from templates here---

page_close()
?>

The problem is that the cookie is not set when the user logs in. It does get set if the page is refreshed via a submit button. How can I set the cookie immediately after the log-in? Or is there a better way to do this?

Thank you very much.