Trouble inserting cookie value into hidden field

cbnsingram

I have a couple of code snippets given to me awhile back that worked beautifully until recently. I am not a programmer and can only assume that when I redesigned my site recently I must have inadvertenly damaged this code.

It is supposed to grab a previously set cookie and put it in a custom hidden field in a paypal payment form.

Note: globals are On and the use of <? as an option to <?php is on as well.

Here is what is in place right now:

<body>

<?
$pid = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['Ref_ID'];
?>

blah blah blah html....then, within the PayPal form this:

Any suggestions to fix this or a completely different approach would be appreciated. Mike

drew010

In PHP versions prior to 4.1.0 you use $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. If its not working I would try using $_COOKIE['Ref_ID'];

cbnsingram

As a matter of fact I did try that. No good.

I'm really stuck here.

drew010

Try running the following code snippet:

if(!isset($COOKIE['Ref_ID']) && !isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['Ref_ID')) {
echo "Neither http_cookie_vars or cookie is set";
}
else {
echo $COOKIE['Ref_ID'] . " <-- is $cookie.<br>";
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['Ref_ID'] . " <-- is $http_cookie_vars";
}

and see what you get. its possible its not set or something.

Daggeth

The code has no problem.. Is the cookie even being set in the first place? You could try this but I doubt this is the problem

<? echo $pid; ?>

In short, get rid of the quotes..

I still think the cookie is not being set, and I think you should run the code snippet provided by Drew.

cbnsingram

Drew and Daggeth I want to thank both of you for your great advice. It helped this non-programmer to think things through and I found the problem. Errrr, the stupid problem.

The cookie was being set properly in the browser, but the domain was incorrect. My affiliate program is in it's own domain and that is were people are sent to set the cookie. The product is produced by another domain of mine. Until yesterday the products purchase page was in the correct domain, but during my efforts to better "brand" the product I moved the payment page to its own domain without considering the results.

Of course the cookie wasn't being picked up - it wasn't from the same domain it was set in. This is all very embarissing since I set the darn thing up in the first place 6-months ago and should have realized this wouldn't work.

I am sorry to have wasted your time, but I would not have realized the problem as quickly without your help ruling out the obvious. Thanks again. Mike

drew010

nice job figuring it out. 🙂