Not Able To Retrieve Cookie Data

[Anon]

I am writing a login script that, once the user is authenticated, I set three cookies and then pass them over to another section:

if($password == $result[password] && $email == $result[email]){
$currtime = time() + 1800;
setcookie("thisuser", $result[email], $currtime, $cookiepath);
setcookie("thispw", $result[password], $currtime, $cookiepath);
setcookie("thisid", $result[id], $currtime, $cookiepath);
?>
<script> location.href="associate.php?action=welcome";</script>
<?
}

I know that the cookies are being accepted by the browser and they are the correct the info (set Netscape to warn before accepting any cookies)...however I can not retrieve the info in the cookies once they are set. I try to do something along the lines of:
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM associates WHERE id=$thisid");

I thought that once you create a cookie then it becomes a var...what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Kyle

[menelaus]

are you trying to retrieve the cookie in a funciton? If so, add a global statement at the top of the function for the cookie. Or try referencing the cookie via $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cookiename"]. The way you are doing it should work and I imagine that it is just a missing global statement

[Anon]

I'm not trying to retrieve the cookie in a function and I also tried $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["cookiename"] to no avail.

I don't know what the deal is. I am running a forum script on the same server that I did not write and it uses cookies in the same manner, and it works fine...I just can get it to work for what I'm doing... The cookie is sent I just can't get the damn data back from it. I've look at all the documentation and it appears, to me at least, that I am doing everything fine. I would opt to sessions, but the server is running PHP3 🙁

I don't know what do to....?