Javascript cookies in PHP

kbrill

I can't seem to read cookies created in a javascript in PHP. Is this possible. I have checked 100 times that the name is the same and I can read it in javascript, but not in PHP.

Thanks

nightowl

There have been similar posts about this on this forum. AFAIK it should work but others reported problems like this too. It may be a good idea to have a look at the HTTP headers. If I'm not mistaking, cookies are sent as part of the HTTP headers. They may very well be in $GLOBALS. I'm currently looking into that subject a little bit more ...

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nightowl

Seems to work fine with me ...

There is a page where I set and retrieve a cookie ...

http://www.nightowl.be/cookietest.php

The Javascript code comes from

http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/counter.html

The JavaScript code is in there, and you see the output of

<?php
echo $_COOKIE;
?>

Dunno whether this would work over several pages too ... should have a look at that. Maybe post your Javascript code here once ? I t may be that Javascript defaults to only allowing that cookie to be visible on one page ? (just guessing)

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nightowl

Even multiple pages seem to work fine ...

see cookietest2.php, cookietest3.php if you want ...

Hope this was of any help

kbrill

I created a cookie in javascript and in PHP and compared the two. the javascript one had a domain of 'www.multi.com' and the php one has a domain of 'multi.com'. Could this be the problem?

nightowl

could be ... try to change the domain of one of the two ? There are options for that in PHP I know... maybe in JavaScript too ?
You could try using the code on my site (or on the sites above), since those seem to work find, at least for me...

yelvington

Cookies are cookies are cookies. The cookied name-value pair is sent to the Web server by the browser. If a cookie is set in a given context, it's always going to be sent in that context. PHP doesn't care/could never know how the cookie was set ... only that it was SENT by the browser. For example, if you are running Apache and have the user tracking module installed, you'll get an "apache=" cookie, and it's available in the superglobal array $_COOKIE.

In terms of where they are available, cookies obey simple inheritance rules. A cookie set to a domain foo.com will be visible to foo.com, www.foo.com, fubar.foo.com, et cetera. A cookie set to the domain www.foo.com will not be visible to foo.com or fubar.foo.com. In addition, you can set a path on the server (/foo/bar/) and the cookie will be visible below, but not above, that point in the URL tree.