The Magic PHP Cookie Value

rfrid

I've got a funny problem. My app uses cookies as a mission critical piece of the logic.

I first create the cookie using ASP: Response.Write("selection") = "Hello World"

Then when a user makes a selection from the menu I update the cookie with the menu selection using JavaScript: document.cookie = "selection" + "=" + escape (e.url);

This all works great. I can also read back the cookie after the selection using either ASP or JavaScript. Both work fine.

Here's the funny part. When I read it back using PHP I get the original cookie value "Hello World" instead of the new selection value. It doesn't matter how many new selections I make or if I switch forms and re-enter just to ensure the cookie is fresh with new values. Regardless of my approach I still get the original value.

Now this is driving me crazy because if ASP and JavaScript are reading the correct new value, just where exactly is PHP getting this old value from? Totally weird yet totally mission critical for me.

Why is this so important? Because, for all you PHP coders out there, I'm trying to migrate all my ASP to PHP because I'm new to PHP but I think it rocks (especially since I found the COM integration, unbelievable!).

Cheers, Randy -- Please fire any responses to my e-mail address as well as posting if you don't mind. This site has gotten to big now and I can't seem to find what I need anymore.

rfrid

Sorry about that, I really meant Response.Cookies("selection") = "Hello World" in the first part of the message.

rfrid

I fixed it myself since nobody responded. Is there anybody out there?

Turns out ASP sets one cookie and javascript sets another by the identical name (all lowercase in this test). Funny thing is, ASP uses the javascript cookie instead of its own so I never would have found the duplicate cookie problem if I hadn't tried using PHP to access it.

Not exactly sure how asp and javascript each get an identically named cookie though? I thought that was impossible?

Anyway, I switched the cookie creation to server-side javascript for now and all is well. I can't wait to finish migrating everything to PHP.