Setting multple data in a cookie

[lorddraco98]

I'm trying to set a cookie on the user's machine with this data:
A cookie name, 3 data values, and a cookie domain.
So i'm using setcookie('cookie1', $data1, $data2, $data3, '', '', 'my domain');
now it gives me an error saying that value 3 is too long.

So basicaly i'm asking, if I have say:
$data1= name
$data2= ip
$data3= userid

I want to set a cookie, with the name cookie1, with those 3 data values, and the domain of "my domain". How do I do this??

[juschillinnow]

setcookie ("my_cookie[0]", $data1, time()+360024);
setcookie ("my_cookie[1]", $data2, time()+360024);

if(!isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["my_cookie"])){ }

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but it basically creates an array with the cookies instead of trying to store the entire value in one.

[Duey]

why cant you just make multiple cookies? its stupid what you are trying to do because it cannot be done a cookie can only store one value unless you explode values.
eg.

$value = "name|>|ip|>|userid";
setcookie ("some_cookie", $value, time()+3600);

getting cookie

$value = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["some_cooke"];
$value_array = explode("|>|", $value);

$user = $value_array[0];
$ip = $value_array[1];
$userid = $value_array[2];

also making an ip is kinda stupid not everyone has cable you know.

[juschillinnow]

geez duey,

the guy only has 13 posts and you keep telling him his stuff is stupid.....oh yeah, he's coming back!

I think he just doesn't understand that you can only store one value in a cookie at a time unless it's either in an array or if you explode it like you said

[lorddraco98]

Originally posted by juschillinnow
geez duey,

the guy only has 13 posts and you keep telling him his stuff is stupid.....oh yeah, he's coming back!


I think he just doesn't understand that you can only store one value in a cookie at a time unless it's either in an array or if you explode it like you said

Thanks 🙂
I think I'll go with the array route, thanks for the help!