RE: [Phphelpdesk-help] Wont work with IE

[Brian R. <bra...@vm...>]

This is probably the same cookie problem that was noted in some previous
emails.  Certain newer versions of IE have issues with setting cookies.
Since I am lazy, I am just cutting and pasting the fix from the previous
email I sent out:
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I found the below code to be extremely helpful with the cookie bug that
was noted in IE5.01+. However, after you make the below change, logging
out no longer deletes the cookie, since cookies must be deleted in the
same manner in which they were set. This means that once someone has
logged in, you can login again from that same machine by simply clicking
the submit button. Or, if someone else tries to login, the original
person is still the one they log in as.
To fix this, make the following modifications to
includes/logout.inc.php:
logout.inc.php:

<?php //Logout script created by Seek3r
//Modified by Brian Razzaque (raz...@vm...)
$time =3D mktime();
$date =3D date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time));
setcookie("status", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);=20
setcookie("user", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("group", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("authentication", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("laston", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("logout", "", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
unset($status);
unset($user);
unset($group);
unset($authentication);
unset($laston);
unset($logout);
?>

Just make sure that you use it with the code listed below by Jay Kramer.
Hope this helps some of you,
Brian Razzaque
Vision Multimedia Technologies, LLC
www.vmtllc.com
raz...@vm...
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At 09:31 AM 5/3/01, Are Westby found time to write:
>I'd suggest you update php/apache. Or as an intermediary solution, you
could
>always run Netscape. Never had any problems there.
In case you aren't able to update these, I found a fix at the
sourceforge=20
website.

Change the files includes/cookie.inc.php and config/general.conf.php to=20
read as follows:

cookie.inc.php:
<?php // SET COOKIE INFO
// cookie.inc.php -- modified by Jay Kramer (ja...@mo...)
if (isset($authentication)) {
$time =3D mktime()+g_cookietimeout;
$date =3D date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time)); // Make a IE5.01compatible=20
date/time..
setcookie("status", $status, $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain); // IE5.01=20
is picky about the base path nad domain, if they are missing, there is a

good chance the cookie will not get set..
setcookie("user", $user, $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
// setcookie("txtUsername", $txtUsername, $date, $g_base_path,
$g_domain);
setcookie("group", $group, $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("authentication", $authentication, $date, $g_base_path,=20
$g_domain);
setcookie("laston", $laston, $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
}
else {
$time =3D mktime()+g_cookietimeout;
$date =3D date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time));
setcookie("status", "Logged In", $date,$g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("user", $txtUsername, $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
// setcookie("txtusername", $txtUsername, $date, $g_base_path,
$g_domain);
setcookie("group", $row[4], $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("authentication", "YES", $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
setcookie("laston", $row[6], $date, $g_base_path, $g_domain);
}
?>

general.conf.php:
<?php //general configuration
$version =3D ".04.4"; //Version Number
$g_title =3D "PHP Help Desk"; //Title of your=20
helpdesk
$g_helpdesk_email =3D "web...@yo..."; //Email of your=20
helpdesk
$g_mailservername =3D "mail.yourcompanys.smtpserver.com"; //SMTP Mail
server
$g_cookietimeout =3D "1200"; //Timeout for cookies
$g_refreshtime =3D "600"; //Refresh time for=20
viewall
// If you are using http://someaddress.com/phphelpdesk, then you must
set the
// base url to "http://someaddress.com/phphelpdesk/" Notice the '/' at
the end
// you must put that in there. If you are using a virtual host such as
// http://phphelpdesk.somecompany.com, then you can just leave it empty
with
// the quotes touching "";
$g_base_url =3D "http://someaddress.com/phphelpdesk/"; //base url=20
location
// you HAVE to set your domain name here, with no HTTP:
// or / at the end or anything...
$g_domain =3D "someaddress.com";
// this is the path from the last part of the $g_base_url
// parameter. If there is no path, set this to "/"; NOTICE
// THE BEGINNING AND ENDING /'s!!
$g_base_path =3D "/phphelpdesk/";
?>

Thanks to Jay Kramer and someone who didn't leave their name. It now
works=20
for me using IE5.
HTH
Brian
com...@cl...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Clark [mailto:Dus...@se...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:13 PM
To: 'php...@li...'
Subject: [Phphelpdesk-help] Wont work with IE


I have a wierd problem.   I am using the latest version of PHP helpdesk
and the stable version of mysql.   Everything has been working fine
until just recently I havent been able to access some pages through IE.
I can log in with IE and when I try to click on something liek "add
user" or "view jobs" it just takes me back to the login page.
However,   I can get anywhere just fine with netscape.   =20
I am not a guru at web programming and I believe this is probably an
easy fix.    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,=20
Dusty=20