[FX.php List] Storing logins for clients

[Bob Patin]

Just for grins, I tried using this to set 2 cookies:

$username = "Bob Patin";
$password = "test";

// Set a cookie that expires in 30 days
setcookie("username",$username, time()+3600*720);
setcookie("password",$password, time()+3600*720);

... but when I tried to retrieve them:

echo $_COOKIE['username'].' -- '.$_COOKIE['password'];

I got nothing...

I don't think I'll store passwords this way, but if this is easy enough to do for usernames, I may add this for this client, unless there's a better way that's not too time-consuming.

Thanks,


Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions LLC
bob at longtermsolutions.com
615-333-6858
http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> One of my clients is asking if I can 'store' their logins (or at least their usernames) like many sites do.
> 
> Upon searching, I saw that using setcookie() was frowned upon, for obvious reasons; have any of you done this, and if so, do you have any code you could share?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions LLC
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> 615-333-6858
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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