() as a cookie value...

jc94062

I'm setting a cookie (after finally getting it to set a variable)

setcookie ('cookie', $username, time()+120);
echo "Logged in as $username";}

but I want to set the value $username ($id) which of course I can't do because it interfears with the rest of the set cookie function, is there a way to get around this?

Thanks

Anon

putting it in quotes should work.

"$username ($id)"

-paul
http://xhawk.net

jc94062

nope, if you put quotes in a setcookie where your using variables the output is that...

so for that idea instead of getting say

Bob (5) I'd get $username ($id)

I nearly posted becuase I was trying that to start with, but then managed to find an example in the manual when variables were being used and they just don't go in quotes.

:-(

I think I've found a temporary measure of just getting the id on the index page and putting it in by relating it to the username, but having it in the cookie would increase the speed slightly I think.

Thanks for the idea!

twmcmahan

That is the case with single quotes (') but not double quotes ("). Double quotes always inserts variable values, single quotes inserts text. Another interesting point is unix special characters like \n only work within " marks.

Tim
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jc94062

Thanks
I can set part of it at least like that, the other doesn't work yet but then its 3am so I think I'll leave it for now :-)