note 35791 deleted from function.setcookie by didou

From: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:12:26 +0000
Subject: note 35791 deleted from function.setcookie by didou
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Note Submitter: david.nospam@intulogic.net ---- I finally solved a huge problem I was having. I was setting a cookie using setcookie() like this: setcookie ('mycookie','$cookievalue'); and I was wondering why my script kept saying that the cookie was invalid. Finally I debugged and discovered that the value of $HTTP_COOKIE_VALS['mycookie'] was $cookievalue. Like all such occurances, this one hit me like a bolt out of the blue. OF COURSE! I screamed - The browser doesn't know the value of my variable - or even that it is a variable. Never use SINGLE quotes around your PHP variables in the second argument of the setcookie() function. They won't get interpolated, and you will be scratching your head like I was.

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