How can I set a cookie and then redirect in PHP?

Wickethewok_30133 0
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After doing a bit of processing, I want to set a cookie value to user input and then redirect them to a new page. However, the cookie is not getting set. If I comment out the redirect, then the cookie is set successfully. I assume this is a header issue of some sort. What is the best workaround for this situation?

if($form_submitted) {
    ...
    setcookie('type_id', $new_type_id, time() + 60*60*24*30);
    header("Location: $url");
    exit;
}

Note that setcookie returns true in either case and I get no errors/warnings/notices.

EDIT: I am using Unix/Apache/MySQL/PHP

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6 Answers

If you have human urls or subfolders (like www.domain.com/path1/path2/), then you must set cookie path to / to work for all paths, not just current one.

if($form_submitted) {
    ...
    setcookie('type_id', $new_type_id, time() + 60*60*24*30, '/');
    header("Location: $url");
    exit;
}

From PHP manual:

The path on the server in which the cookie will be available on. If set to '/', the cookie will be available within the entire domain . If set to '/foo/', the cookie will only be available within the /foo/ directory and all sub-directories such as /foo/bar/ of domain . The default value is the current directory that the cookie is being set in.

user_673320

How are you testing if the cookie is set? Cookies are available on the next page after they are set.

Common Pitfalls:

Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for. To test if a cookie was successfully set, check for the cookie on a next loading page before the cookie expires. Expire time is set via the expire parameter. A nice way to debug the existence of cookies is by simply calling print_r($_COOKIE);.

tkotitan_576250

I'm assuming you are running IIS? There is a know bug with IIS versions less than 7 when attempting to both set a cookie and a location header in the same request.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176113/

Daniel_Von_Fange_626210

I have made solution for that

    setcookie(self::SESSION_NAME, $session_id, $expires, '/', null, null, true);
    header("Set-cookie: ".self::SESSION_NAME."=".$session_id."; expires=".date('D, Y-M-d H:i:s', $expires)." GMT; path=/; HttpOnly; secure=true; SameSite=Strict");
    
//check is something printed
    if (!headers_sent()) {
    
//is there any header set
                if( !array_map(function($header){ return preg_match('/Set-cookie/i', $header) ? true : null; }, headers_list()) ){
    
                    die(header('Location: ' . $url));
                }
            }
            die('<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href = ' . ($append ? 'window.location.href' : '') . ($append && $url ? '+' : '') . ($url ? '"' . $url . '"' : '') . ';</script>');
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