Posted by Erwin Moller on 05/09/06 11:14

Ron Croonenberg wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi,

>
> cookies are stored in an array called $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS right ?

Sometimes, it is an 'old' array, possibly not available in future version of
PHP.

Use $_COOKIE instead if you can.

read more here:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.cookies

>
> Is it possible to find a cookie if you know part of it's name ?

Yes.
Try this:

<pre>
<?php print_r($_COOKIE); ?>
</pre>

That will output to html, nicely formatted, what is in the cookiestring the
clientbrowser send along the request to your page.

>
> For example the cookiename is firstname and I want to check all
> cookies that start with "first" in there name.

Just examine the output of the above, and you'll figure out a way to search
for substrings. If not, come back here with some samplecode.

>
> I tried to work wih string and substrings, but that didn't seem
> to work ?

Show us what you tried, along with the content of $_COOKIE your script
received.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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