PHP Cookies Problem

[apacheanderson]

I've got a problem setting cookies on my site. I want to set a cookie that last for a year and I've used the line

setcookie( "membercookie", mysql_insert_id(), time() + 31536000);

But the cookie expires when the browser is closed.

Anyone got any idea of what I'm doing wrong?

[daisho]

Looks good to me. I wonder if the value is overflowing. Try something like time()+86400 and see if that works.

daisho.

[apacheanderson]

Yeah I've tried setting small expire values but to no avail.

[daisho]

Is this the first think in your PHP code? Do you get a warning abouit headers already being sent? Just as a quick test add "ob_start();" (no quotes) as the very first line in your PHP block.

daisho.

[apacheanderson]

The cookie sets fine. It just expires as soon as the browser is closed. I don't get any header errors.

That ob_start() didn't make any difference.

[daisho]

Sorry wan't thinking. The ob_start would have only fixed it if you were getting header errors.

Have you tried different browsers? Or telneted in to see what headers are being sent? Maybe it's a client problem.

daisho