Cookie not working

[hoehnt]

Hello,

I am using the zenid as a unique identifier for naming files that a user creates when he visits a page.

I thought this was a good idea until I noticed that if a user creates several files without logging out the files get overwritten because the zenid only changes upon login.

So I decided to make a simple counter cookie that would increment every time the page was refreshed. This coulter value would somply be appended to the zenid for a truly unique file identification.

Now my problem is that cookies dont seem to be working within zen cart.

I am creating it with the following:

<?php
if (!isset($_COOKIE['Counter_Cookie'])) $_COOKIE['Counter_Cookie'] = 0;
$Counter_Cookie = $_COOKIE['Counter_Cookie'] + 1;
setcookie('Counter_Cookie',$Counter_Cookie);
?>

viewing cookies with javascript:alert(document.cookie); shows no cookie. The files created have the zenid with a 1 appended, but the 1 never incremements.

anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

[Kim]

Using the zenID is a bad idea - try using time or a zen_get_random() - (I hope that's the right function :) )

[hoehnt]

I was origimally using time but we decided that there was a (however remote) chance 2 users could log in at the same time.

I cannot find anything on zen_get_random(). Is that documented anywhere?