Weird cookie problem

ollmorris

I have this weird Cookie problem. In Firefox with PHP Version 4.3.9 I use setcookie () to set a cookie by the name of "test1". I know the cookie is set because I look in Firefox's list of cookies and there it is. However the following code does not work which has baffled me.

if (isset ($_COOKIE['test1''])) {
   echo "Cookie Set";
}

Any help or info would be appreciated. A look in the PHP manual indicates this should work!

tsinka

Hi,

how does the setcookie line look like ? The code you posted contains an error, there are two single quotes at the end of the string. How does the directory structure look like ?

Thomas

ollmorris

The double quotes is my error sorry. The line looks like:

setcookie ($test, $_POST['option'], 60 + time());

The file that contains the above code is inside a directory inside the webserver. e.g. http://localhost/test/THISFILE.php.

Thanks

laserlight

Did you check the next page load?

The cookie is not available until the next page load.

ollmorris

Yeah I did. The weird thing is that the cookie is set but cannot be retrieved. Is it a php.ini thing?

tsinka

If the script that checks if the cookie is set is outside of that directory like e.g.

http://localhost/checkit.php

then you might need to use

setcookie ($test, $_POST['option'], 60 + time(),'/');

Add the line

print_r($_COOKIE);

to check how the _COOKIE array looks like.

Thomas

ollmorris

Using print_r I get

Array ( [test1] => 1 )

I use a variable called $poll['title'] to obtain the value test1 in a cookie so could it be something to do with that?

tsinka

How does the complete code look like ?

ollmorris

$polls = mysql_fetch_array (mysql_query ("SELECT title, time, number FROM table"));

$title = $polls['title'];
$time = $polls['time'] + time ();
$number = $polls['number'] + 1;

setcookie ($title, $number, $time);

Those are the bits of code which directly affect the setcookie function.

Also I use:

if (isset ($_COOKIE[$poll['title']])) {
echo "cookie is set<br><br>";
}

where I retrieve title from another query.