PHP and Cookies

I am having trouble retrieving cookie data using IE 7.
I am using the following code to store the current date and user name
into a cookie:

<?php
//($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $ydat, $isdst) =
localtime();
$localtime = localtime();
$localtime[5] += 1900;
$date = $localtime[4]+1 . "-" . $localtime[3] . "-" . $localtime[5];

// retrieve cookie
$visit = $_COOKIE['lastdate'];
if ($visit=="") $visit = "0-0-0";
$userlogin = $_COOKIE['user'];
if ($userlogin=="") $userlogin = "Guest";

// set cookie
SetCookie("lastdate", $date, time()+60*60*24*365, "/",
".assistacomp.com");
SetCookie("user", $userlogin, time()+60*60*24*365, "/",
".assistacomp.com");
?>

The code works perfectly in FireFox but IE7 does something strange.
It functions perfectly until I reboot the computer. When the computer
is rebooted, a new cookie is created with a [2] after the cookie name
and the original cookie is completely ignored.
Anybody have any idea of how to fix this?

Jeff wrote:
> I am having trouble retrieving cookie data using IE 7.
> I am using the following code to store the current date and user name
> into a cookie:
>
> <?php
> //($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $ydat, $isdst) =
> localtime();
> $localtime = localtime();
> $localtime[5] += 1900;
> $date = $localtime[4]+1 . "-" . $localtime[3] . "-" . $localtime[5];
>
> // retrieve cookie
> $visit = $_COOKIE['lastdate'];
> if ($visit=="") $visit = "0-0-0";
> $userlogin = $_COOKIE['user'];
> if ($userlogin=="") $userlogin = "Guest";
>
> // set cookie
> SetCookie("lastdate", $date, time()+60*60*24*365, "/",
> ".assistacomp.com");
> SetCookie("user", $userlogin, time()+60*60*24*365, "/",
> ".assistacomp.com");
> ?>
>
> The code works perfectly in FireFox but IE7 does something strange.
> It functions perfectly until I reboot the computer. When the computer
> is rebooted, a new cookie is created with a [2] after the cookie name
> and the original cookie is completely ignored.
> Anybody have any idea of how to fix this?
>

Find out why IE isn't recognizing the cookie. Maybe a microsoft group
would be of more help.

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