Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 03/28/05 01:27

John Hinton wrote:
> OK, I created this most simplistic script..
> [snip]
>
> I would expect the return on action=1 to report the set cookie, but
> instead, it has no data. If I then reload the browser, the cookie
> appears. How can I get the cookie to set without this reload? What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks a bunch...
> John Hinton

When you use setcookie(), it sets a Set-Cookie header in the response to
the browser. The browser will then send the Cookie header with
subsequent requests.

The server has no way of knowing about the cookie until a subsequent
request, but you could either code around it or write your own setcookie
wrapper, something like:

function setcookie2($name, $value="", $expire="", $path="", $domain="",
$secure=false) {
$_COOKIES[$name] = $value;
return setcookie($name, $value, $expire, $path, $domain, $secure);
}

It's probably better just to think up an alternative way to do it though.

Best regards

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