Those darn cookies dissapears!

I have tried to fix a problem over a week now, and I totally give up...is cookies from hell or what???

The scenario is like this:

I use a frameset (top, center, bottom) and I use cookies and mySQL to build up sessions.

When the user is logged in, I want the topbar to shift from "login" to "logout".

Today I have to pass a url to update the topframe. Why? You ask. Because for some unexplainable reason I CAN ONLY READ THE COOKIE FROM THE CONTENT FRAME AND NOT THE TOPFRAME... Do not ask me why!!

"So - is there really a problem? You said you're updating the topframe by passing paramaters" - someone said.

Yes - there is a fat big problem kicking my brains purple - when someone hits the "refresh page" everything goes barf, because the $_GET parameters is vanished.

Is there any cookie wisards out there - save my planet!!

how are you setting the cookie, and is the top frame in a different folder to the main content area?

I'm setting the cookie with:

setcookie("sess_key", $this->key, 0) or die("problems with cookie!");

And, yes - the top frame is in another folder.

Should I try to make sure the frames is loaded from within the same directory?

your setting your cookies wrong!

it should be something like this

setcookie($key, $value,$timelimit,$dir)

so in your case it should look like this

setcookie("sess_key", $this->key, time()+3600,"/");

This means the cookie
name is sess_key,
value is $this->key
expires in an hour, and can be access via all dir above it

Thanks a thousand Master Ben! I´ll fix, I'll fix.