Mark Hensler — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:15:02 +0000

3600 is the number of seconds in 1 hour.

What I normally do is this
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, time()+(60*60*24*$days_expire));

Make $days_expire the number of days that you want to set the cookie to.

whitty — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:16:57 +0000

i havent figured it out myself this time lol

i thought by setting the value of a cookie to 0 or null that it would never expire? i could be wrong but i read it somewhere

basically i have a poll on my site that will be changed every couple weeks or so. i only want people to be allowed to vote once for that poll so i was just going to set the cookie to never expire. i could just set it to expire in a year, or a month or somthing but im not sure how to do that?
do i change the 1 to however many hours and the 3600 to however many seconds?

Mark Hensler — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:44:29 +0000

Did you figure it out?

I'm not sure if you can set a cookie to live forever. I've always set the cookie for 1 year, and reset the cookie on each visit.

whitty — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:59:35 +0000

(i typed the link wrong, my bad)
lol sorry to do this to you guys again but i figured it out.
again im reaall sorry. i just couldnt figure it out but i kept working on it and finally got it.
as you can tell im new to server side stuff but im getting it.

i do have a question though
im going to use cookies so people cant vote more then once

here's the cookie

<?php
$cookie_expire = 1; // hours

if (!isset($action)) {
  $action='';
}
if ($action==\"vote\" && isset($vote_for)) {
  $cookie_name = \"AdvancedPoll\".$poll_id;
  if(!isset($$cookie_name)) {
    setcookie($cookie_name, \"1\", time()+(3600*$cookie_expire));
  }
}
?>

i want to make it so it never expires. i know i have to use either "0" or "null"
but im not sure how to change this part so it reflects the above 0

<?php
setcookie($cookie_name, \"1\", time()+(3600*$cookie_expire));]
?>

Mark Hensler — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:09:31 +0000

link does't work for me

whitty — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:36:24 +0000

hey thanks. i will be sticking around here, its a very active forum with lots of smart people. lol

actually though im having another problem.
if you check out the site

http://www.blueballprodutions.f2s.com/index.php you'll see the poll but it wont let you vote

everything works fine untill one person votes and then it dosent give the option to vote anymore
it says "sorry you can only vote once" to everybody. even if they havent voted

any ideas on whats causing it to do this?

mjames — Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:32:21 +0000

Okay, then, glad you fixed your problem.

Welcome to TWF, hope you stick around.