Mint Cookie Tag
Development and Programming
The Mint pepper Nametags allows you to see what pages a member logged into your site has viewed. It does this by checking a cookie for the members username. ExpressionEngine sets various cookies by default, but they are not human readable.
The Mint Cookie Tag extension allows you to set a cookie when a member logs in, with their username as the value. Available for download.
Two questions though,
Is there any security issue with storing the member’s username in plain english in a cookie?
I had a problem using the built-in set_cookie function, and so have just used the PHP SetCookie. The code is below, what am I doing wrong with the built-in function (currently commented out)?:
function set_mint_cookie($row)
{
global $SESS, $FNS;
$cookie_value = $SESS->userdata['username'];
/*$FNS->set_cookie($this->settings['cookie_name'],$cookievalue,Time()+3600);*/
// not sure why this doesn't work
SetCookie($this->settings['cookie_name'],$cookie_value, Time()+3600);
}Simon.
I’ve updated the extension to use a different extension hook to ensure that all logged in members get the cookie, not just ones that log in from when the extension is activated.
Further to previous post, I fixed the problem I noted in question 2.
Hey Simon.
Cheers for this. I’ve just implemented it on my site. Looking forward to seeing how well it works for me.
Thanks again.
Hey Simon. I just loaded it up on my site energyrace.com and it worked right off the bat. I had been having trouble getting Mint to recognize a cookie set by EE using the set cookie function. I think I had the path wrong. But your extension takes the pain out of it.
Thanks,
-Jay Barnes
Fabulous, just what the doctor ordered.
Simon,
The download link on your site doesn’t seem to work. Is this still available for downloading?
Sorry, I’ve fixed that now.
That site uses Textpattern, and when you update Textpattern it wipes over where uploaded files are stored… and I always forget to upload them again.
Thank you very much!! 😊