wierd problem

[Anon]

Ok,

im setting a cookie to read
setcookie("$fullName","Peter Smith");

and i have a select box that also holds names ie: Peter Smith

I then want to use an if comparison
ie:
if($fullName == (name from select box))
{
bla bla bal

but the values fail to properly compare even though they have the same values? Yes i have tried encode and decode to no avail.

HELP

thanks

peter

[Anon]

Open the manual at the section where it explains tons of stuff about using cookies, like $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[] etc.

[Anon]

You may have to set the cookie path. Funny stuff can happen if you don't explicitly set the path of a cookie to the root dir "/". It's an optional argument and using requires you to also add the expiry date, but I always use it.