RE: [PHP-WIN] newbie cookie question

Thanks for the input Zak, when I toss your code in I get the following result: Array ( ) And that is it. Any more ideas? Larry Hotchkiss On Friday, December 01, 2000 3:18 PM, Zak Greant [SMTP:zak@nucleus.com] wrote: > At 03:07 PM 12/1/00 -0600, you wrote: > >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? > > The cookie variables may not be global. If there are any cookie vars, they > should be in the $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS array - try this little test to see what > is stored in there: > <pre><? print_r ($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) ?></pre> > > hth, > > zak