setcookie stores & as %26 - HELLLLLLLLP PLEASE!!

[RIPP]

PLEASE HELP!! {insert squeekly lil' voice 😃}

setcookie ("dms", "session_id&" . $data_to_cookie[session_id] . "&userid&" . $data_to_cookie[userid] . "&user&" . $data_to_cookie[user],time()+3600, "/");

Can't seem to get rid of that dam %26 replacement of my &.

I get cookies set as:

dms=session_id%2630 ..... etc instead of
dms=session_id&30 ..... etc.

I've tried escaping with \& etc but this then gets cookied as:

dms=session_id%5C%2630 ..... etc

{SIGH} 🙁

Now I can work with these %26 with javascript coding that I am doing and they'll be read as &.

But the reason I am writing such a nasty looking setcookie is because I wish this cookie to be easily extracted into perl code as a hash.

Perl stores hashes with the & as the seperater between property and value.

{Ok.. you're probably curious why I'm using php AND perl... well I'm integrating a php forum into a site management program written in perl, and both require user authorisation to gain access... The biggest part of the programming will be in perl, consequently I require perl to gain access to cookie data as easy and effectively as possible}

MANY MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE 🙂

RIPP

[thefury]

Pass the var threw urldecode right when you get it from the broswer. Pretty sure theres no way around php encoding it auto.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

[RIPP]

Thanks for the reply TheFury 🙂

But it needs be read in via a perl program which means the php urldecode won't work for me.

The cookie that I need to escape the & with is written as a cookie from a php program, but is written to be read from a perl program and straight into a perl hash. [If I can get that php to cookie the data as & rather than %26]

{Yes perl can write a cookie without it becomming %26, there must be some way to get php to do it surely... <hopes>}

Any other experienced php hackers got a clue how this might be accomplished?

Thanks, RIPP 🙂