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Bug #33627 Setcookie problems
Submitted: 2005-07-10 05:35 UTC Modified: 2005-07-12 12:22 UTC
From: weathermon at optusnet dot com dot au Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 4.4.0 OS: Linux 2.4.18-3smp #1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-07-10 05:35 UTC] weathermon at optusnet dot com dot au 
Description:
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The submit bug report doesn't have my PHP version in there, I am using 4.3.2.

When I use setcookie, it seems to only be setting the cookie every 2nd time I load the page for some reason.  I am getting the value from $_GET and storing that in the cookie.  

Just for debugging purposes, I am printing the thumbview parameter and the cookie value each time it's run.

Basically I want the cookie to be set to the thumbview's value each time I change it.  I have no idea why it gets set only when I refresh the page a second time.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
  if ($_GET["thumbview"]!="") {
    $sdata = $_GET["thumbview"];

    if (!setcookie ("dirlisting", $sdata, time()+3600)) {
      print ("cookie NOT set!");
    } else {
      print ("cookie set!");
    }
  }

  print "<br>Thumbview: ".$sdata;
  print "<br>Cookie Value: ".$_COOKIE["dirlisting"];
?>

Expected result:
----------------
test.php?thumbview=0

cookie set!
Thumbview: 0
Cookie Value: 0

test.php?thumbview=1

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 1

Actual result:
--------------
test.php?thumbview=0

cookie set!
Thumbview: 0
Cookie Value: 0

test.php?thumbview=1

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 0

I refresh the page again and this time it sets the cookie:

test.php?thumbview=1

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 1

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 [2005-07-10 09:03 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
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 [2005-07-12 12:17 UTC] weathermon at optusnet dot com dot au 
I have upgraded to version 4.4.0 of php and still no go. 

test.php?thumbview=0

cookie set!
Thumbview: 0
Cookie Value: 0

test.php?thumbview=1

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 0

I refresh the page again and this time it sets the cookie:

test.php?thumbview=1

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 1



What I noticed was that when I ran the last test.php?thumbview=1, I didn't have to even put in ?thumbview=1, I just typed in test.php and this is what it said:

Thumbview: 
Cookie Value: 1

So, my understanding is that it's setting the cookie, however if I try and read it in the same session, it retrieves the data it saved before for some reason... and when I just run the test.php again without any parameters, it reads the saved cookie properly...

When I executed this from when the Cookie was set to 1 before, this is what I got:

test.php?thumbview=blah

cookie set!
Thumbview: 1
Cookie Value: 1


test.php

Thumbview: 
Cookie Value: blah


So yeah... it definitely seems to be saving the cookie.. but when I try and read it in the same session, it's retrieving the old data from somewhere still, and will only read the new data on the next refresh
 [2005-07-12 12:22 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
http://php.net/setcookie :
Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for. To test if a cookie was successfully set, check for the cookie on a next loading page before the cookie expires. Expire time is set via the expire parameter. A nice way to debug the existence of cookies is by simply calling print_r($_COOKIE);.
 
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