On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Same script *invocation*. The cookie gets set when the response is
sent back to the client. If the client calls the same script again,
that cookie then uploaded. :)
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