Re: Possible Cookie Bug

Please, discuss stuff like this on the appropriate mailinglist! PHP-DEV is for developing PHP, not for developing WITH PHP. Most of you should know that by now :) Sander On 2002.03.13 18:00 Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

Andy Woolley wrote:

Ok, I hear what you are saying and accept that it isn't a bug but is it not possible to populate the cookie variable when you set the cookie. I have had many problems with cookies & PHP in the past, usually due to the way they work and so anything that can be done to make cookies easier to use would be of benefit.

wouldn't you be better off with php sessions instead of putting stuff into cookies yourself?

If I use JavaScript to manipulate cookies, as soon as the cookie is set I can access it and I would imagine this behaviour to also be present in PHP and as it is not, it causes much confusion.

JavaScript is executed on client side, PHP runs on the server side important difference in this case

I appreciate that this is not of prior importance but I've just spent quite a long time trying to figure out why my cookies were not behaving as they perhaps should have. As Sander pointed out from the manual "Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for.". I think this could do with being looked into at some stage. I personally think the cookie should be available as soon as it is set.

a cookie is transfered to the clients browser using a "Set-Cookie:" line in the HTTP response header you do not know in advance if a client will accept cookies, and the client will only return the cookie on the next request (if at all) so it perfectly makes sense that a cookie is *not* visible in the php script it is first set in automagicaly setting the value in $_COOKIE[] or even as a global variable with register_globals=on would cause more confusion than it would help again: please try to understand how the HTTP protocol in general and especialy the Cookie mechanism work for cookie specification see http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html (as mentioned on http://php.net/setcookie) for HTTP 1.1 see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616 -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 Wir stellen für Sie aus auf der CeBIT 2002 und freuen uns in Halle 6 auf Ihren Besuch am Stand H 18 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php