Cookie Help

MainMor

For the last several years I have been coding ASP pages in VBScript. This last month I have been turning to PHP and not looking back.

I am finding myself pleasantly surprised at how fast I am picking this up... but my problem comes down to Making the one work with the other while I transition over 25 seperate programs from ASP to PHP....

Not an easy task....lol

Anyways, while I do this transition the old programs must continue to work... so now I am working with the cookies built by my ASP pages.

When I need to pull my cookies in the past I would use:

Request.Cookies("Employees")("FirstName")
Request.Cookies("Employees")("LastName")

I store several different values in a kind of mini library in the cookie.

Now how do I pull my cookies that contain more than one value?

For instance how would I pull just the FirstName? or Pull just the LastName?

I hope my question is not too terrible confusing.

Thank you again for reading this.

MrAlaska

The cookie is a text string, you need to put in delimiters and split it up on those. For instance, considering a form wit the following text inputs:
host
base
name
pass

To set the cookie named admin_cookie in this case:
setcookie("admin_cookie","$host,$base,$name,$pass");

To retrieve the values:
$cookie_var = split(",", $admin_cookie);
$host = $cookie_var[0];
$base = $cookie_var[1];
$name = $cookie_var[2];
$pass = $cookie_var[3];

I hope that made it clear enough, I am on my way out the door 🙂

MrAlaska

Actually, you can also load an array into the cookie, but I find my method easier unless you have a lot of values to store. If you are storing a lot of fields, an array might be easier.

Outa her for real, now

MrAlaska

This code will probably look more like what you are used to. In this case I am leaving the expiration variables out which makes it a tempory cookie as with any language. It is also possible to loop through all the cookies but here is the basic syntax to set a cookie:

//sets an array in cookie named "cookiearray"
setcookie("cookiearray[name]","testname");
setcookie("cookiearray[pass]","testpass");

Two methods retrieve cookies, the first will work whether or not you have global variables turned on:

//retrieves itemized values from "cookiearray";
$name1=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[cookiearray][name];
$pass1=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[cookiearray][pass];

//retrieves itemized values from "cookiearray";
//  (only works with global varabiables turned on)
$name2=$cookiearray[name];
$pass2=$cookiearray[pass];