php cookie not working

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Published on 2010-04-24T06:58:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 7:03 UTC
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I am trying to use a cookie with authentication.

This page works once entering user and pass

   <?
    if ((!$_POST[username]) || (!$_POST[password])) {
        header("Location: show_login.html");
        exit;
    }
    $db_name = "testDB";
    $table_name = "auth_users";
    $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());
    $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE username ='$_POST[username]' AND password = password('$_POST[password]')";
    $result = @mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
    $num = mysql_num_rows($result);
        if ($num != 0) {
            $cookie_name = "auth";
            $cookie_value = "ok";
            $cookie_expire = "0";
            $cookie_domain = "domain.com.au";
            setcookie($cookie_name, $cookis_value, $cookie_expire, "/", $cookie_domain, 0);
            $display_block = "
            <p><strong>Secret Menu:</strong></p>
            <ul>
                <li><a href=\"secretA.php\">secret page A</a>
                <li><a href=\"secretB.php\">secret page B</a>
            </ul>"; 
        } else {
            header("Location: show_login.html");
            exit;
        }
    ?>

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Secret Area</title>
    </head>

    <body>
    <? echo "$display_block"; ?>


    </body>
    </html>

WHen clicking on either secretA.php or secretB.php I am redirected to log in again, it should work. here is the code. secretB.php

<?php

if ($_COOKIE[auth] == "ok") {
    $msg = "<p>Welcome to secret page B, authorised user! </P>";
} else {
    header( "Location: /show_login.html");
    exit;
}
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>Secret Page B:</title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<? echo "$msg"; ?>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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