UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Darn Cookies

Has anyone succesfully modified the wwwthreads cookie to be accepted site wide? (eg, subdomains, folders before the wwwthreads install)

If so, suggestions, examples..

this is pretty much the final stepping stone in my quest for total site integration with wwwthreads.

The problem with the w3t cookies is that they're set only for the current directory/folder. Solution:

Find all occurences of setcookie(); and apply the following changes before the closing bracket.

Before:
setcookie("w3t_myname", "$CheckUser", time()+31536000);

After:
setcookie("w3t_myname", "$CheckUser", time()+31536000, "/", ".yourdomain.com");

In this very example the cookie will be available to all files (the "/" part) on yourdomain.com and all it's subdomains. If you plan on using it on only one particular domain, don't write ".yourdomain.com" but "nameofsubdomain.yourdomain.com". Of course yourdomain.com has to be replaced with the name of you actual domain.

BTW, the original part in brackets ("w3t_myname", "$CheckUser", time()+31536000) might be different from setcookie() to setcookie() since there are different variables set as cookies.

Hope this helps.

I'm not sure of the repercusions of this, BUT, because i'm still doing the test on my local machine, and having to input the IP addy in order to view the contents, i couldn't add the Domain name linke.

But, if i simply add the "/" it works perfectly fine! My next question is what, if any, downfalls are there to using this method?

Thanks a million!

Naw, no real drawbacks. In my special case it was necessary to add the ".yourdomain.com" as setcookie() argument since I wanted to use the cookies all over my site, including the subdomains.

would it be possible to include this modification in the standard version?
it would be very helpful for writing w3t addons.

I should be able to do that. I'll probably put it in as a config option because I know some users don't like a sitewide cookie.

thanks.
maybe it should be an option to specify folders.
because I'm also hosting people and I don't wan't them to read out my cookies.

e.g. my site is located in poisonfree.com/poisonfree
one level higher there's lots of other peoples sites...