How? Read & use cookies set by 1 page & used by another in different remote call

sherry

Hello.

What are the steps to read and use a cookie set by one page and used by another of the same software (same domain) BUT from a different REMOTE call? 😕

For example:

Once the login form is submitted, save the cookie to a file or database (whichever offers the best security), then be able to use that cookie from any other page from a different remote call no matter how many people are calling that 'other' web page? 😕

Thanks.

Undrium

Using cookies in PHP is quite simple, just make sure you set them before any HTML in your files.

setcookie("TestCookie", $yourValue, time()+3600);

Will create a cookie named TestCookie on the client, containing the value you have set in the variable $yourValue. The cookie will probably last 1 hour (3600sec), but don't put all your trust on that since it is client dependant.

$cookieValue = $_COOKIE["TestCookie"];

This will get the value from your TestCookie.

There is a ton of features with cookies you can use, and I'd say cookies is never the most secure way holding client states since it actually depends on the client.

http://php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

sherry

Thanks for your reply, Undrium.

The main part of my question is to read and use cookies across (for) different files in different remote calls. How to accomplish that?

Thanks.