Reading a cookie, and setting it in head

[Anon]

I want to read a cookie, then set a variable depending on that, and if it is not present, then create that cookie on the persons system.

It is to be used for a voting system, but at the moment, it seems to return the variable as set as tho the cookie is there.

Ive used:

setcookie("s5nvote","voted",time()+3600);

to set the cookie, after

if (isset("s5nvote"))
{
$voted="1";
}
else
{
$voted="0";
}

where am i going wrong with these? i dont want to seperate them out into two files, as it will then mean that people can skip the cookie setting

[ludri]

maybe..

setcookie("s5nvote","voted",time()+3600);

if (isset($s5nvote))
{
$voted="1";
}
else
{
$voted="0";
}

[Anon]

Nope, makes no difference. Sets the cookie then reads it.

Is there a way i can definately read the cookie, and then set it?

[Anon]

And i want it to set the cookie also if it does not exist...