[Resolved] Setting Cookies

Rulkster

Is there a cap to how many cookies you can set within a script?

I have a script where I am setting 180 different cookies, all with unique names. The script sets the first 101 cookies just fine but on cookie 102 and the rest it does not set them. So I did this test:

Ran the script as is and:
cookie 100 - got set
cookie 101 - got set
cookie 102 - did not get set
cookie 103 - did not get set

Removed cookie 101 and ran script:

cookie 100 - got set
cookie 102 - got set
cookie 103 - did not get set

Any idea on this??

thorpe

not aware of any cap, but i have to ask. why would you need so many? a cookie can hold more than 1 value you know?

kburger

There's some useful info here.

Rulkster

There is probably a better way to do this but this is why I have so many cookies.

I have a data entry screen that captures 181 pieces of information. 181 fields. When someone makes a change to any field I want to be able to record that change and who did it. So if I have a field called: FIRST NAME and using $fn to store it when the script loads it sets a cookie to the current value of $fn (I will call it $cur_fn)

Then when the script is submitted I check to see if $cur_fn equals $fn. If it does I record nothing. If it does not equal, then a change was made and I record it.

MikeSnead

Possibly just use a hidden field for every input field you have that holds the original value... then compare against the hidden fields to see if a change was made?