$_COOOKIE problem

[pedroz]

Please check the following scenario:

Cookie in temporary internet files : OK! from www.A.com

tcookie.php from site www.A.com

                // www.A.com
                echo $_COOKIE['user'].":".time();
                

index.php from site www.B.com

                //www.B.com
                $ch = file("http://www.A.com/tcookie.php");

            // ERROR below: does not display $_COOKIE string
            echo $ch[0];
            

Any idea to execute index.php and display the cookie?
avoid: include() and require() command

[tony_l]

$_COOKIE is a global that is accessed by the domain that created it. I you want to print out a cookie from site A on site A's website you would do this -

echo $_COOKIE[var];

You cannot print out a cookie for site A on site B (or at least you shouldn't).

Now to get to the real problem. I think you are a bit confused as to how PHP works. Your page is saying to ECHO the Cookie variable - which means it will be seen when the page displays. If you are including the file, it is not parsed like a text file.

[coreyp_1]

use the eval() function. something like:

eval(file_get_contents('http://www.A.com/tcookie.php'));

one caveat: when requesting tcookie.php, the server will try to parse the file before the eval() function gets called. to avoid this, you have 2 options: 1. rename the file to something like tcookie.php.inc, or, 2. don't use <?php ?> in the file to be included.