m3rajk — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:15:55 +0000

odd. becasue i've closed out the browser and then reopened it and gotten the screen that i'm not logged in.

i don't know about their operating system. i know they were both using interent explorer, one has made websites so i expect she's good with computers and she said she has cookies on.

Re: cookies and staying signed in

Mark Hensler — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:24:26 +0000

Quote: first, and way more importantly, is the one that the 2 friends to sign up last are having. both using M$ internet explorer. both are not staying logged in.

i cannot duplicate this. no one who signed up before them has the issue. they are successfully singing in, it's just not keeping. default login time is two min. they are def not waiting long enough for timeout.

Have you had others test this with the same setup (OS/Browser)?
May sound dumb, but... do they have cookies enabled?

Quote: secondly, i'm wondering how one can make a cookie which will stay in cache after one closes out a browser. this way i can make the cookies persist for those that don't want to be bothered with signing in each time they start up the browser

i don't see how to do it with setcookie()

setcookie() always persists after a browser is closed. Cookies always expire. To keep a cookie for login purposes, the general practice is to set the cookie to expire 1 year from the current date. Then after each successfull login (which should be automatic), you reset the expire for an additional year. (This is so the cookie never actually expires)

IIRC, sessions are the only thing that "expire" when a browser is closed.