Problem while retrieving data from cookie with unserialize

Hi, I’m having this problem: I set a cookie using this: $sql = "UPDATE member SET cookie=$cookie WHERE ". "id = $this->id"; $this->mysql->query($sql); $cookie = urlencode(serialize(array($_SESSION['username'], $cookie))); setcookie('auth', $cookie, time() + 31104000, '/', 'www.reddast.is'); And then when I check the cookie using this: list($username, $cookie) = @unserialize(urldecode($cookie)); using this query: "SELECT * FROM member WHERE (username = $username) AND (cookie = $cookie)"; it looks like this when I debug the script and see the actual query that is sent to Mysql: "SELECT * FROM member WHERE (username = 'ofjord') AND (cookie = '\'86aa5f7e6469efe09a17089957f59b0f\'')"; I hope someone has any answers on this. Best regards, Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon ofjord@simnet.is ICELAND