Cookie available to includes?

[dalecosp]

Sorry if this is a FAQ --- I've been looking
at Google, php.net, and here for a couple
of hours now and figured it's time to post.

Are Cookie variables available to an
included file on the (next) script?

<Example>
Script 1 sets cookies, links to script 2

Script 2 includes a header file with a
GreetUserName function that should print
a variable set by a cookie... the script
also prints the same variable within the
context of the script itself. Currently,
I have the correct output on the page
proper, but the variable is blank in the
(included) header file. </Example>

Any thoughts? Thanks for your help.

KDK

[Anon]

I don't believe the cookie is available to the included script. That would just seem true from the example you provided. It might be available if you say just printed the variable but as a part of a function scope issues would probably cause the problem you speak of.

You would actually have to pass the function the cookie-defined variable. The function creates a whole new scope. It would really depend on how your code was written. If the function accesses the cookie variable as if it was a global then things get cloudy. If the function accesses the cookie-defined variable as if it was passed to the function then most definately you're going to have to pass it in.

To test I would add a line to the top of the included file:

print $cookie-defined-variable

That should tell you for sure.

[dalecosp]

Thanks, I'll check. Also, found
some 'pilot error' just now in
a function called by include within
the included file ... so, maybe it's "pilot
error."

Thanks much for the quick help.

KDK