cookies / limits on amount (?)

[Anon]

If I set a cookie and indicate the variable name as an array:

setcookie("new_record[3]", $name, time()+1209600, "/", "", 0);

ie, new_record[1], new_record[2] ...

does this count as ONE cookie, or a seperate cookie for each iteration??

I see only one

  'administrator@127.0.0[1].txt'

in my cookie directory, but I've got a lot to put in there and I wanted to make sure.

thanks
dnorton

[Anon]

i think it is considered as a seperate cookie for each iteration.

so you will run off the cookie amount limits pretty soon.

an easy solution i use is:

when i set cookie, i walk through the array and save values of all the items in one string, separate by special characters such as ":::"

say if i have a quantity[], i will loop the array and get the cookie value as

$quantity_cookie=$quantity_cookie.":::".$quantity[$index];

and save this cookie $quantity_cookie, which will considered as one cookie.

and when i use it

i will use

list ($quantity)=array(split(":::", $quantity_cookie));

to get my $quantity[] back

hui