cookie problem - all categories are displayed as empty

[dontom]

hi,
a different application on my website sets a cookie called "name" - as soon i have this cookie, all cats are displayed empty. How can I solve this on the pp-c side?

Thanks
Thomas

[Chuck S]

Url to your site?

What variables does this cookie create any other cookies?

test login?

I have moved this to install forum since this would not be a classifieds bug

[dontom]

http://www.mtb-news.de/bikemarkt/ (test / test)

cookie comes from here:
http://www.mtb-news.de/support/StartSeite (test1 / test1)

it seems to be only the "name" cookie - pp-c tells me in every category "no ads in this category" - if i remove the cookie everything is ok again

[Chuck S]

Well you must rename your cookie name

so your issue is on showcat.php and the reason being is the page thinks your doing a search cause name is a search variable

[Chuck S]

Well your issue is on showcat.php and the reason is because name is a variable used on the search engine and the script thinks your doing a search

Basically you need to rename that front login cookie to something like uname or samething unused in classifieds or vbulletin

[dontom]

pp receives this information normally by get / post but not by cookies - can i tell pp to ignore name in cookies?

[Chuck S]

Well our program is coded for certain variables and works as it should.

You might not be able to search for ads by username but this might work in showcat.php

if ( !isset($page) ) $page = 1;
if ( !isset($what) || empty($what) ) $what = "allfields";
if ($_COOKIE[name]) $name = "";