Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged cookies

cookies are not enabled

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:08:34 +0000

I was checking the cookies on my website and looks like cookies are not enabled for my website, the database table cookies showing the last time it had was 2021.

could someone please help to advise how to enable cookies on the q2a website, is something missing on it?

How do I make my website automatically save a login cookie when a user signs in?

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:31:21 +0000

Though we have a remember me checkbox to save the login cookie of user when he/she signs in, nowadays no one uses them due to modern browser technology and security reasons.

So, how can I make my q2a site automatically save a login cookie when a user signs in without having the need to check the "remember me" checkbox.

How can I delete all of my users' cookies for my website?

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:25:29 +0000

I don't know how to delete all of my users' cookies for my website, because whenever I do changes in qa-style.css the changes can't be seen on the normal browser but can be seen in incognito mode or after clearing cookies.
So clearly it's a cookie thing, but i can't tell my users individually to clear cookies for my website anytime I do changes.
I really need a way to do something about it.

Cookies Notice => which Plugin can I use for this ?

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:05:31 +0000

Hi Guys,

I live in Europe, and the registration ask us to put Cookies Notice User validation -

Is there a simple plugin I can put on my Q2A list of questions to said that my Forum collect cookies.

I would like to put on the footer of each pages with a "validation clic" to said "OK (then it disapear)" + "a link to a page about cookies informations policy".

Thank you

Whats the purpose of the external users php file?

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 16:50:37 +0000

Im new to wordpress integration, running into some issues. Testing it, when I logout it sometimes doesnt logout or it shows me as another user. So I guess cookies arent clearing? Checking out the external users file, it appears it needs to be modified alot? Is this nexessary for integration to function properly, or what needs modifying in that file? Thanks!

Do we have to edit all of external-users php to get synced with wordpress integration

Sun, 28 Aug 2016 12:01:31 +0000

I have integrated with wordpress, but not sure what the external users php file is for? Is this handled automatically or do we have to edit and change things? Is this the only way for the cookies, login, logout, combine user profile to function? Sorry, new to this integration and SSO stuff. There's been some 'bugs' or my user error of not being able to sign out completely, etc.

Cookie compliance: How to do it?

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:34:31 +0000

I know there are several jquery plugins to ask the users for permission, but I read the script actually have to wait for permission before setting a cookie

Something like if(permission){ set cookies (not only Q2A, but Google Analytics maybe other add-ons we have in our site)}
else{don't set any cookie}

Any idea how to implement this?

does your website collect cookies?

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 02:41:01 +0000

I just installed your site a week ago and I am filling up this free Privacy Policy generator and it asks me if my site uses cookies on their users....

How would i get a pop up box saying to allow cookies, any scripts?

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 02:46:11 +0000

Looking for a pop up which says cookies are used bit like this :

http://cookie-script.com/

Just wondering if we have one that i can activate via a plugin or other method please?

How can i add script cookien on my Q&A website?

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:14:15 +0000

Hello ever1!

I have problem. How can i add script cookien on my Q&A website? I need put this stylesheet to my <head> section:

and this:

to my <body> section. Please help me... i dont know where i must put this.

Is it possible to ask users if they want to enable cookies?

Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:59:09 +0000

Recent european laws tell that you must ask users if they allow you to enable cookies. due to my limited programming abilities, I don't know how to do this. Please, could you indicate any idea? Best regards, Cueez

What cookies is set and what are they used to?

Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:19:26 +0000

Hey.

I need to know, wich cookies is set in Q2A and what they are used to, because of the new EU cookie law.

So, how many cookies is set, and what are they used to?

Two questions regarding table "qa_cookies"

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:17:27 +0000

I would like to know more about qa_cookies. Example entries:

cookieid	created	createip	written	writeip
1616998859625367400	2013-01-09 09:10:52	1351659518	2013-01-09 09:10:52	1351659518
17762331686246191714	2013-01-09 01:11:32	1558524896	2013-01-09 01:11:32	1558524896
16769361733673514866	2013-01-09 00:11:43	1419461695	2013-01-09 00:11:43	1419461695
17246418231037538345	2013-01-08 22:56:03	1575265698	NULL	NULL

How are the columns used?

cookieid → clear, saves the generated cookie-id to identify the user

created → time of creation

creatip → recent IP of the user (?)

written → ... ?

writeip → ... ?

This question is actually related to the headers-already-sent-bug (badges plugin), as the last entry in the table above with NULL | NULL was giving me a server error. Badges plugin called: qa_cookie_get_create()

Thanks,
Kai

What is causing the error: headers already sent by qa-theme-base.php in qa-app-cookies.php?

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:22:17 +0000

I love error-log-free environments, so this q2a-error makes me kind of crazy - appearing now every day.

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /qa-include/qa-theme-base.php:106) in /qa-include/qa-app-cookies.php on line 61

I asked about that in June and got gidgreen's answer, he pointed out to the plugins.

read on: http://question2answer.org/qa/20376/possible-solution-headers-already-sent-theme-base-cookies

As the wysiwyg editor plugin uses the qa_cookie_get_create() on line 108 (in the error message above it says line 106 though), so I think it is responsible. How can I change the code to prevent this error?

PS: I wonder what is causing the problem, something must be undefined? Maybe function qa_remote_ip_address() (in qa-base.php) is expecting an IP ... however, some users use services that hide IPs!

Update 2012-10-31: I got the error logs of the last 2 days and sent them gidgreen. It seems to me that it is not a plugin causing the error as arbitrary (?) files are accessed and the error just appears like that.

headers already sent by qa-theme-base.php in qa-app-cookies.php?

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:28:23 +0000

From my server's error log:

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /qa-include/qa-theme-base.php:106) in /qa-include/qa-app-cookies.php on line 61

I am having a couple of those error messages in my log. What could be causing it? Cookies?

Line 106 from qa-theme-base.php in function output_raw($html):
echo str_repeat("\t", max(0, $this->indent)).$html."\n";

Line 61 from qa-app-cookies.php in function qa_cookie_get_create():
setcookie('qa_id', $cookieid, time()+86400*365, '/', QA_COOKIE_DOMAIN);

how do i use sso, i have all the info in cookies

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:38:02 +0000

how do i use sso? say that im on an internal site that have the username, email and so on stored in cookies..how can i auto-login the user? security is not an issue.

i've tried reading the documentation but it seems a little overkill for what i want to accomplish...i have everything in cookies on the same site, ie username, email, real names and so on..i just want to auto-login these users so that they can ask questions - meanwhile i want to have a group of "approved" users that can answer

Detecting a Q2A user externally, via Javascript?

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:22:54 +0000

On my main site, all the pages are heavily cached. (They are normally generated from a database but rarely change so I just serve the exact same HTML to every visitor.) For some minor user-interaction in the past I used Javascript to set/retrieve a preference cookie.

My question is, can I do something similar with Q2A? It looks like the qa_session cookie contains my username but has some other characters after it. What is the format?

Note, I really just need to check the username and display some links, which will go to special Q2A pages (for proper security). Kind of like when Amazon recognizes you but makes you login when you actually need to buy something.