setcookie and reloading pages

[Greg Bryant]

Wondering why my setcookies didn't have any impact, I noticed the line in
the manual that said the page needs to be reloaded before they take effect
(which does make a certain kind of sense). So, how do I force a page to
reload?

Thanks,
Greg

[Marouen]

"Greg Bryant" <br**********@y ahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news:
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Wondering why my setcookies didn't have any impact, I noticed the line in
the manual that said the page needs to be reloaded before they take effect
(which does make a certain kind of sense). So, how do I force a page to
reload?

Thanks,
Greg

Call this

<script>
function redirect()
{
window.location .replace("samep age.php");
}
setTimeout("red irect();", 5000);
</script>

5000 is 5 seconds , you can change it

Marouen

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Greg Bryant <br**********@y ahoo.com> wrote in message news:<Xn******* *************** ************@19 9.45.49.11>...

Wondering why my setcookies didn't have any impact, I noticed the line in
the manual that said the page needs to be reloaded before they take effect
(which does make a certain kind of sense). So, how do I force a page to
reload?

if ( ! isset($_COOKIE['foo']) )
{
setcookie('foo' , .....); //set cookie..
//reload the page for cookie to work properly
header("Locatio n: ". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
exit;
}

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[Randell D.]

Greg Bryant wrote:

Wondering why my setcookies didn't have any impact, I noticed the line in
the manual that said the page needs to be reloaded before they take effect
(which does make a certain kind of sense). So, how do I force a page to
reload?

Thanks,
Greg

You could use an HTML META REFRESH tag to force the browser to refresh
if a cookie is not set...

How are you setting your cookies? Using non-PHP code (ie javascript?) or
straight PHP code? If you are using PHP, why do you need to set, then
re-read the cookie with a page refresh? Why not set the cookie and have
any remainder part of your code use the same vvariable/value that you
used when setting the cookie - From that point forward, any link the
user clicks on will read the cookie automatically from the headers (if
cookies are enabled).

does that help any?

randelld

[Greg Bryant]

"Randell D." <pl************ *******@news.gr oup.com> wrote in
news:Rqjsb.3727 84$6C4.144848@p d7tw1no:

You could use an HTML META REFRESH tag to force the browser to refresh
if a cookie is not set...

How are you setting your cookies? Using non-PHP code (ie javascript?)
or straight PHP code? If you are using PHP, why do you need to set,
then re-read the cookie with a page refresh? Why not set the cookie
and have any remainder part of your code use the same vvariable/value
that you used when setting the cookie - From that point forward, any
link the user clicks on will read the cookie automatically from the
headers (if cookies are enabled).

does that help any?

randelld

Thanks - good suggestions all. This is my first PHP project, so I'm
learning as I go. The project is a small port/enhance from CF, and I
haven't played too much with the overall architecture, which has left me
with what I thought at first were oddities, but I'm getting used to them
(form validation pages reloading the form page if there's an error is
kind of kinky recursive, not expected on a scripting language :). Since
it's basically C with a few changes, it's not hard to learn (2 days to
port the site, 4 more to add database, signin pages, cookies, actual
field validation, mail support, etc). Pretty much finished with
"Beginning PHP" book, time to swallow the next one.