Cookie Fix

Having trouble setting cookies? Try setting the globally, or alternately again, by headers.

Had to use this on a clunky host. I hope people don't have this problem, but if you do, here is a fix. Note, if it fails to set the cookie globally, it will try by headers, which is not possible unless the function is called before any output.


<?php

function setaltcookie( $name, $value, $expires ) {

// Use up to two digits to define a expiration in days.
$expires = ( ( strlen( $expires ) <= 2 ) ? ( time() + ( 86400 * $expires ) ) : ( time() + $expires ) );


$global = @setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, '/', '/' );

if ( ! ( $global ) ) {

// If we can't set the cookie globally, try setting a cookie by headers.
$header = @header('Set-Cookie: ' . $name . '=' . $value . '; expires=' . $expires . '; path=/; domain=' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );

return $header;

}

return $global;

}

if ( setaltcookie( 'demo-cookie', md5( microtime( true ) ), 7 ) ) {

echo 'The cookie should now be set.';

} else {

echo 'Hmm, nope.';

}

?>