Question

i just want to ask if do i need to set something to enable the cookies from my hosting?

i have this

<?php
 setcookie("TestCookie","Hello",time()+3600); 
 print_r($_COOKIE);
 ?>

it will function perfectly at my server which is xampp. but when i upload it to my hosting,
it will not function.. what should i do? or what will i add to the code?

Answer 1

It is also possible that the cookie is actually sent but the client doesn’t sent the value back to the webserver in subsequent requests.
Possible causes:

• your server’s clock is misconfigured and therefore time()+3600 is in the past from the client’s perspective => the client will delete the cookie immediately.
• the cookie failed the general tail match check, search for “tail match” in http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
• the client is configured not to accept those cookies

There are many addons for different browsers that let you see the http headers the client actually received. E.g. Firebug for Firefox. Use them to check if there is a Set-cookie header in the response. If there is the client for some reasons rejected it. If there is no such header you have to check why the server didn’t sent it.