On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 10:19 +1030, David Robley wrote:
> Angela Barone wrote:
>
> > On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> >> You can manually write a cookie on your machine, or use a special script
> >> that only you visit that contains a setcookie() call (it only need be set
> >> once). From there on, you can check the $_COOKIES super global for the
> >> presence of your cookie.
> >
> > I don't know why, but I can't get cookies to work. Here's a script I'm
> > calling from my browser:
> >
> > <?php
> > $domain = ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'localhost') ?
> > $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] : false;
> > $cookie = setcookie('test2', '123' , time()+60*60*24*30, '/', $domain);
> > ?>
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE html>
> > <html lang="en">
> > <head>
> > <meta charset="utf-8" />
> > <title>Test Page</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <?php echo 'Cookie is: '.$_COOKIE[$cookie]."<br>"; ?>
> > <?php echo 'Domain is: '.$domain."<br>"; ?>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > The domain is being displayed but the cookie is not. There's no cookie in
> > the browser prefs, either. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Angela
>
> Misunderstanding what $cookie contains? It is a boolean, i.e. it will be
> true or false depending on whether the cookie was set or not. To echo the
> contents of a cookie, you need to use the cookie name, viz
>
> <?php echo 'Cookie is: '.$_COOKIE['test2']."<br>"; ?>
>
> --
> Cheers
> David Robley
>
> Oxymoron: Sisterly Love.
>
>
Not just that, but if you set a cookie, you won't be able to retrieve it
in the same script I believe. It's only available in the $_COOKIES array
once you refresh the page, as that's when the super global is populated
from the cookie data that the browser sends.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
