EDIT: I figured out the problem. The expiration time for the cookie was an integer that was too large.
The cookie monster keeps eating my cookies when I set them. For some reason my php code displays the proper message when it is the person's first time on the page. However, it does not set the cookie.
I'll put a comment on the line that sets (or should send) the cookie.
<?php
if (isset($_COOKIE["passed"]) == true)
{
if ($_COOKIE["passed"] == "true")
{
$cookieReport = "You already passed once. Come right in!";
} else
{
$cookieReport = "You've already been here, but you failed. Loser";
}
} else
{
setcookie("passed", "false", time() + 60*60*24*365*100); //should set this cookie but doesn't
$cookieReport = "You've never been here. Get a life.";
}
if(isset($_POST["btn_submit"]))
{
if ($_POST["txt_pass"] == "butt sex")
{
setcookie("passed", "true", time() + 60*60*24*365*100);
$passReport = "that's right!";
} else
{
$passReport = "that's not right!";
}
//
echo "<br />";
} else
{
//$passReport = "";
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
I love Ronald Z.
<br />
<form id="frm_entrance" name="frm_entrance" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
<label>Magic Word:
<input type="text" name="txt_pass" id="enter" value="<?=$_POST['txt_pass'];?>"/>
</label>
<input name="btn_submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<br />
<?
echo "Cookie result: " . $cookieReport;
if(isset($_POST['btn_submit']) == true)
{
echo "<br />The result: " . $passReport;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
