note 96995 modified in function.setcookie by danbrown

To avoid the browser delay when working with cookies, you can create your cookie during the initialization process of your web site. If someone visits *any* page of your site, you should create that cookie with a default value after checking for the default value. Later, when you're working with the cookie, set it to what you need it to and it will be available on the next page the user visits. This helps avoid forcing a browser reload on the client-side. A more refined method of working with cookies is to use my example above and then interact with the cookies using javascript. To review: Perform a conditional check to ensure the cookie does not exist and create it with a controlled default value. (You can later check for the default value when adding meaningful data) <?php $cookie_name = "mytestcookie"; if( !isset($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) && empty($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) ) setcookie("$cookie_name", 0, 0, "/"); ?> The cookie "mytestcookie" is now accessibly readable and writeable. --was-- To avoid the browser delay when working with cookies, you can create your cookie during the initialization process of your web site. If someone visits *any* page of your site, you should create that cookie with a default value after checking for the default value. Later, when you're working with the cookie, set it to what you need it to and it will be available on the next page the user visits. This helps avoid forcing a browser reload on the client-side. A more refined method of working with cookies is to use my example above and then interact with the cookies using javascript. To review: Perform a conditional check to ensure the cookie does not exist and create it with a controlled default value. (You can later check for the default value when adding meaningful data) <? $cookie_name = "mytestcookie"; if( !isset($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) && empty($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) ) setcookie("$cookie_name", 0, 0, "/"); ?> The cookie "mytestcookie" is now accessibly readable and writeable. http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php