Hi everybody...I wonder if anyone can help with what I thought was a simple task at first but I was wrong, Iv'e looked all over the net but found no solution.
What I'm trying to do is this: a visitor is directed from a site to paypal, on redirection a cookie is placed on their pc logging the last page they were on, this is the script,

{
setcookie ("Auth", "http://mydomain.com/somepage.html", time() + 3600, "/");
}
exit;

This part works ok.
When they are redirected back to the site from paypal they are directed to a page containing a script which looks for this cookie and redirects them back to the page they were on, this is as far as I got with the script,
{
$_COOKIE["Auth $cookieValue"];

header("Location: $cookieValue");
exit();
}

I know it looks wrong but I can't work it out, the script is executed but in the browser its a blank page and no redirect.
Any pointers would be appreciated folks.
Go easy, I ain't gonna win any medals for scripting.

Rayo

PHP Code:

{
$cookieValue = $_COOKIE["Auth"];

header("Location: $cookieValue");
exit();
} 


Thank's Miki86...bang on, it worked fine, who knows why I never saw it!
While were on this, is there a way to set the url in the cookie without putting in the actual url, ie: a method which sets the cookie value to the url of the page which is in the browser at the time.

Cheers
Rayo

PHP Code:

setcookie ("Auth", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], time() + 3600, "/"); 


Im sure there are better ways but this came first on my mind.

Thanks for your input again Miki86........I can't get this one to work because its not putting the full url in the cookie, I get the message "The requested URL /mysite/mypage.html was not found on this server" it must be that the http:// is missing, I had a go at fixing this but no luck.
Any Idea's.

You only get this /mysite/mypage.html ?
Then try assigning full domain name + file path before setting a cookie.

PHP Code:

$path = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
//or $path = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
//or $path = 'http://mydomain.com'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
setcookie ("Auth", $path, time() + 3600, "/"); 


That's fixed it Miki86........thank's for all your help.........much appreciated.