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Accessing a Cookie Value

Hi,
I am setting number of cookies in one of my scripts and when i run an another script to access those using print_r($_COOKIE); i get this display :

Array ( [coeff] => 3 [rate] => 3 [hardening] => 3 [cmodulus] => 5 [cminor] => 5 [ccthe] => 5 [cdensity] => 5 [pcbmodulus] => 6 [pcbminor] => 6 [pcbcthe] => 6 [pcbdensity] => 6 [pmmodulus] => 7 [pmminor] => 7 [pmcthe] => 7 [pmdensity] => 7 [cmmodulus] => 8 [cmminor] => 8 [cmcthe] => 8 [cmdensity] => 8 [smesh] => VISCO107 )

But if i access the cookie using $_COOKIE['coeff'], i don't get any display, how to access the cookies which are in Array above with the respective name inside the

square bracket like [coeff] is the cookie i set in my earlier script with value 3.

Please help me

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y2kwacko

maratmu,

You may want to check into the HTTP_COOKIE_VARS array as well.

Quoting from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
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Note that the value portion of the cookie will automatically be urlencoded when you send the cookie, and when it is received, it is automatically decoded and assigned to a variable by the same name as the cookie name. To see the contents of our test cookie in a script, simply use one of the following examples:

<?php
// Print an individual cookie
echo $_COOKIE["TestCookie"];
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["TestCookie"];

// Another way to debug/test is to view all cookies
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>

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Regards,
Kevin

shmert

Your example should work fine. Is the array you printed the entire contents of the $_COOKIE array? Or is it further down somewhere...
Are you referencing the $_COOKIE['coeff'] on the same page as the print_r($_COOKIE) statement? Check case sensitivity & spelling also.