Posted by Seansan on 03/03/07 23:23

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Seansan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I run the following in PHP then two cookies are set.
>>
>> ini_set('session.name', 'session-1');
>> session_start();
>> setcookie('session-2', '');
>>
>>
>> Both cookies are being sent to the client, and then to the server (I am
>> sure), but they are not available in $_COOKIE (this array is empty).
>>
>> Why and how can the $_COOKIE variable be empty - this is getting
>> frustrating. Am I missing something? All other global variables are
>> available normally, only $_COOKIE is always empty.
>
> Even if sessions many times are cookies, they don't use the $_COOKIE
> array, but $_SESSION, as you want to be able to access a session the
> same way no matter if it's embedded into url or as a cookie.
>
> I suggest you take a look at
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
>
> to see how session works
>
>
> setcookie() may require you to specify all the arguments, seems to be a
> long lived msie bug that makes it to not save a cookie and also keep in
> mind that you can't access a cookie value until the script after the one
> where you created (the same applies to value changes).
>
>

Thank you for your answer. setcookie() has been called correctly and
with all the arguments. (this was just a simple example).

The cookies are stored on the client, and also sent to the server. I
have tested with firefox and IE. There is something happening serverside
that either changes the COOKIE value, doesnt allow it to be set, of has
another hash where it is stored.

Any more ideas?

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