IE and cookie issues in PHP app

Hi all. I have built an online events directory in php (
http://dontjustsitthere.co.uk) where people can find local events and also
post their events. The app is composed of a single page, index.php, that
generates different content depending on the parameters passed to it and
uses sessions for persistence.

I have had nothing but pain with IE6 with this, I don't use any third-party
cookies and one issue was resolved by using this line at the top of the
page:

ini_set('session.name', 'couchy');
session_start();

To post an event, the first form processes the category and postcode of the
event plus a captcha field. The fields are validated and cleaned and then
passed into $_SESSION.

On the next stage I perform a cookie check, and if there are issues warn the
user. This has been happening to every IE6 user, they can't get past the
first page - so that means that $_SESSION['category'] and
$_SESSION['postcode'] are not being populated.

I thought I had this nailed but it's rearing it's butt-ugly head again.
Anyone aware of the probable cause of this?



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On 4/26/07, Dave Goodchild <buddhamagnet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I have built an online events directory in php (
> http://dontjustsitthere.co.uk) where people can find local events and also
> post their events. The app is composed of a single page, index.php, that
> generates different content depending on the parameters passed to it and
> uses sessions for persistence.
>
> I have had nothing but pain with IE6 with this, I don't use any third-party
> cookies and one issue was resolved by using this line at the top of the
> page:
>
> ini_set('session.name', 'couchy');
> session_start();

Why do you have cookies in your title, and you're using sessions?
These are different things...
>
> To post an event, the first form processes the category and postcode of the
> event plus a captcha field. The fields are validated and cleaned and then
> passed into $_SESSION.
>
> On the next stage I perform a cookie check, and if there are issues warn the
> user. This has been happening to every IE6 user, they can't get past the
> first page - so that means that $_SESSION['category'] and
> $_SESSION['postcode'] are not being populated.

Maybe some code could help us determine the real problem, with this
text description, there could be 100+ different codes that could fit,
and maybe some work with IE6, and some don't.
>
> I thought I had this nailed but it's rearing it's butt-ugly head again.
> Anyone aware of the probable cause of this?
>

IE6 is full of sh*t, I had a lot of trouble with it lately too, seems
that it doesn't handle all RFC/W3C standards....
But as i said before, we can't do anything without your code :)

Tijnema