Posted by Dan Tappin on 03/02/05 18:26

The manual detail this issue:

http://ca.php.net/setcookie

You can't see the cookie until you hit the next page. There is no way
view the newly set cookie.

Dan Tappin

On Mar 2, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Tom Whitbread wrote:

> I am using a cookie to detect what skin a user wants to display. The
> problem is if a user visits the site for the first time the cookie is
> not being set. I am detecting if its being set or not with
>
> if(!isset($_COOKIE['skin'])){ ... }
>
> It's not setting the cookie untill a user refreshes the page once. How
> can I ensure it's set when it hasnt been set before?
>
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