Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 10/06/44 11:11

Chris W. Parker wrote:

> AndreaD <mailto:andrea.davidson@silene.co.uk>
> on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:25 PM said:
>
>
>>The cookie will not/set or print out.
>>http://www.aztechost.com/problem.phps
>
>
> setcookie("cookie[$name]", $age);
> echo $_COOKIE[$name];
>
> I think it should be:
think again
>
> setcookie("cookie[$name]", $age);
> echo $_COOKIE['cookie[{$name}]'];
>
> ??
>
> Please see http://www.php.net/setcookie.
have you tried reading it yourself? the answer /is/ in there you know!
Basically, what happens here is the fact that when you set a cookie
using setcookie(), that cookie isn't automatically added to the $_COOKIE
superglobal. why not? because the $_COOKIE superglobals array contains
cookies *recieved* from the user, and this one just left on its way *to*
the user. Until the user reloads the page, that cookie will not show up
in the $_COOKIE array. But, please tell me, why don't you print it like
this:
echo $age ?

-tul
>
>
> Also you're teaching yourself a very bad habit of writing scripts with
> register_globals turned on. See google for more information.
>
>
> Chris.

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