newbie cookie question

I am just playing around at the moment and I have a script that sets a couple of cookies. I am verifying that the cookies are set by checking the "warn me before accepting cookie" option in the netscape browser. I see the cookie being set as well as its value. Now, I am under the impression that if my cookie code appears as follows: setcookie("cookie_user",$form_user_id); I should be able to access the data within the cookie as $cookie_user. After entering data and having it saved to a cookie another page is called where I am simply trying to display the $form_user_id by doing the following: echo ("Welcome: $cookie_user"); I get the welcome portion, but $cookie_user seems to be unavailable. Any ideas as to what I am obviously overlooking? --------------------------------- Larry Hotchkiss