retrieving and echoing cookies

Anon

I'm having a hell of a time trying to retrieve a cookie value to print to the page.

I've tried everything but nothing seems to work.

echo isset($FirstName);
gives back a 1 which means the variable exists.

but
print ("Hello $FirstName");
does nothing while
echo HTTP_COOKIE_DATA;
prints HTTP_COOKIE_DATA; to the web page.

Please help.

TIA

djg_uk

Hi Patrick,

I don't understand why the print() function is not returning anything. Have you set the value of the cookie? If $FirstName is an empty string, isset() will still return true (1), and this would explain the print problem.

I found no mention of a HTTP_COOKIE_DATA constant in the PHP manual. There is, however, a predefined variable $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS, which might be worth a look at.

Regards,

David

Anon

Hi David,

I set the value of the cookie on a previous page on same domain in same directory.

I tried $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS also but the browser just printed off the variable name.

Am I right in thinking that a cookie set from one web page in a directory will be available to all other pages in that directory subsequently?

Patrick