Cookie / Login issue - standard answers does not work. I will PAY you to help me fix

[602 Streets]

I develope a website, 602streets.com

On this web site, people can upload artist pages and music.

Each user can have a number of "artists" associated with their account.

I use the vBulletin user system for authentication.

So, when a user goes to the artist login page, it automatically displays their artists and lets them edit their artists, based on their vBulletin userid.

The way I do it is simple, I have a table for artists. One of the fields in this table is "ForumUserID". So whenever someone want to add or update their artists, the site simply reads the "bbuserid" cookie and checks for any matches in the artist table.

This works perfect for 90% of my users.

However, for 10% of the users, there are weird, inconsistent problems.

They will log in to vBulletin. It will show them as "logged in". It will show them as logged in accross the entire web site, including non Vbulletin pages. For example, the site home page shows if you're logged in, again based on the bbuserid cookie.
So far so good. The cookie is written and read fine and my lookups are working great. EXCEPT FOR on ONE page. for some reason, when users (about 10% of them) go to log in to their artist page, it says they are not logged in (to vbulletin).

I use the exact same method of checking if they are logged in as I do on every other non-vb page. but for some reason it does not work on this page for about 10% of my users.

I have been through the delete cookies script that was up here, it does not help. I have made sure users have cokies enabled - not the issue. I have tried to narrow it down to a browser, or OS, but there is no pattern.

The only thing I can think of is, the page in question is 1 directory deeper than the other pages. Copuld this be the issue?

1. why does it affect only some users?
2. Which users is it affecting and why?
3. how can I fix this.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me. I will pay you. I will give you logins to investigate. I just need help.

site: www.602streets.com
the page that has problems: http://www.602streets.com/Users/loginform.php

it may effect other pages in the Users folder (i.e. http://www.602streets.com/Users/ArtistAdmin2.php ) but Im not sure yet.

The problem seems to have gotten much worse with vB3. In vB2 it did happen but much less often.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

[Bryan Ex]

I have the exact same problem you do only with a PhotoPost integration. For my site the problem stems from the cookie set by the activation emails as such;

I require email confirmation and when a new user clicks the link to activate a new window opens. Most times they will start browsing my site using that new window but the cookie set by VB3 during the activation process does not include the "Remember Me" option and becomes incompatible with PhotoPost. These users are logged into VB but keep being told to log in in PhotoPost. When they try to login VB tells them they are already logged in creating an endless loop for them. Once they log out and back in the problem is corrected and never returns.

Unfortunately I do not know how to add the Remember Me setting to the activation cookie and have yet to find the answer to doing so.

[Infopro]

In the header and footer of your forums you have to edit all links to get PP to work with forums. On mine for instance I added a / in front of all links. This is covered 10 different ways in 40 different threads at PP forums. You must not have read them all yet. The answer is there, vague as they may be with helping its there.