Grabbing cookies in includes

[riceboyler]

Hello all,
First post, glad to find the community.

I'm using an IB Forum, and while attempting to add a Member bar to the rest of my site, I found something interesting. If the code that pulls the cookies is raw code, it passes the data fine, and the code executes as designed.

If, however, I use that same code in an include, it will not pull the cookies. I'm using includes to setup virtual templates, so I can change the include file and make the change sitewide. I'm trying to include this script in my top banner so that I can include it on every page without having to do it by hand.

So, my questions are these:

1. What is the reason that cookies don't seem to be pulled when a script is run as an include?
2. Is there anyway to pull cookie information out while using includes, or will I have to hard code this script into every page I want it on?

Thanks in advance. I hope to learn more as I go.

[m_tt]

You will have to post some code. I have setup many scripts that manage cookies from an include file and never had this problem.

[benkillin]

I had the same problem! see, when the script is included, the user variables like cookies and session variables arent passed, because to the script, the PHP module is the user, the way I got around it is by including it with GET variables in the include:

include("header.php?IP=$ip&COOKIE=$cookie");

hope that helped

[riceboyler]

That would certainly make sense! Thanks!