Cookies

[bugsuperstar37]

I have read the PHP manual information n cookies, but I'm not quite sure how to read a cookie once I set it up on the client machine. Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you

[Anon]

Maybe this will help, also from the PHP manual

Example 1. setcookie() send examples

<?php
setcookie ("TestCookie", "Test Value");
?>

now client has a cookie called TestCookie

You can then do the following to get it back

<?php
echo $TestCookie;
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["TestCookie"];
?>

That simple

[Anon]

You can setcookie("cookie", "cookie_value");

After client requests the page you can access cookie as a variable $cookie.

echo "$cookie";

should be cookie_value.

Di

[Anon]

It is helpful to set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. That way you know for sure that your cookie exists.

Also, Your cookie will not be avaliable on the page that you set it.

IE 6 has a fairly strict default setting against cookies. Third-party cookies are completely blocked. This means the cookie being set must be from the same site the visitor is viewing.
Cookies cannot be set for other sites, even by using hidden frames.

If you need to share cookie information between sites with different domains, you can use a nasty work-around.
You can use a series of scripts on each site to set a cookie and forward to the next script and return to the original page.
The user won't see the re-directs when Using header("Location: page.php");