reading/writing cookie code problem

[deras]

i am wanting to set a cookie and also to read a cookie if one was previously written into my script results

$id = rand(100, 1000000000000);
session_start();
$oraclecookie = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["oraclecookie"];
if($oraclecookie=null){
setcookie("oraclecookie", "$id", mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 14, 2005));}

this is the part of the code that writes out the data to a text file

$str .="The top-scoring option is : $prefer\n"."$ip"."\n"."$oraclecookie"."\n";

but for some reason it's not writing any data for $oraclecookie (but all the other variables are being written)

so what am i doing wrong?

[dinger]

Use ' instead of " in the HTTP_COOKIEVARS[] variable.

Try that.

Chris

[deras]

note: i am a php idiot...

do you mean this...

$oraclecookie = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["instead of"];

[deras]

i tried this too without luck...

$oraclecookie = $COOKIE['oraclecookie'];
if($COOKIE['oraclecookie']=null){
setcookie("oraclecookie", "$id", mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 14, 2005));}

[yelvington]

Look closely at your code. Where you think you're testing for a null value, you're actually setting a null value.

[deras]

yes making it == fixed things... thanks