Setting a cookie with the username

[eljeffe]

I found the thread that discussed what was needed to set a cookie that contained the username. But I tried it, and couldn't get it to work.

Here is the snippet of code that I added in the login.php (in two places):

vbsetcookie('userid', $bbuserinfo['userid'], 0);
vbsetcookie('password', md5($bbuserinfo['password'] . 'L45537ea'), 0);
vbsetcookie('username', $bbuserinfo['username'] );

^^^^ This is the set cookie line of code recommended in the earlier thread.

I've made this change, and no username cookie shows up.

Any ideas?

[merk]

Have you tried logging out then logging back in? That cookie will only appear when you login.

[eljeffe]

Yeah, I tried logging out. I also cleared all my cookies and watched the cookie manager to see what cookies show up. For some reason, the username cookie isn't getting set.

[Colin F]

I found the thread that discussed what was needed to set a cookie that contained the username. But I tried it, and couldn't get it to work.

Here is the snippet of code that I added in the login.php (in two places):

vbsetcookie('userid', $bbuserinfo['userid'], 0);
vbsetcookie('password', md5($bbuserinfo['password'] . 'L45537ea'), 0);
vbsetcookie('username', $bbuserinfo['username'] );

^^^^ This is the set cookie line of code recommended in the earlier thread.

I've made this change, and no username cookie shows up.

Any ideas?

Possibly you need to set the third parameter, which is a 0 on the top two function calls?

[eljeffe]

Tried that, no dice