Please, discuss stuff like this on the appropriate mailinglist! PHP-DEV is for developing PHP, not for developing WITH PHP. Most of you should know that by now :)
Sander On 2002.03.13 18:00 Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > Andy Woolley wrote: >> Ok, I hear what you are saying and accept that it isn't a bug but is >> it not >> possible to populate the cookie variable when you set the cookie. >> I have had many problems with cookies & PHP in the past, usually due >> to the >> way they work and so anything that can be done to make cookies >> easier to use >> would be of benefit. > > wouldn't you be better off with php sessions instead of putting stuff > into cookies yourself? > >> If I use JavaScript to manipulate cookies, as soon as the cookie is >> set I >> can access it and I would imagine this behaviour to also be present >> in PHP >> and as it is not, it causes much confusion. > > JavaScript is executed on client side, PHP runs on the server side > > important difference in this case > >> I appreciate that this is not of prior importance but I've just >> spent quite >> a long time trying to figure out why my cookies were not behaving as >> they >> perhaps should have. As Sander pointed out from the manual "Cookies >> will not >> become visible until the next loading of a page that >> the cookie should be visible for.". I think this could do with being >> looked >> into at some stage. I personally think the cookie should be >> available as >> soon as it is set. > > a cookie is transfered to the clients browser using a "Set-Cookie:" > line in the HTTP response header > you do not know in advance if a client will accept cookies, > and the client will only return the cookie on the next request > (if at all) > > so it perfectly makes sense that a cookie is *not* visible in > the php script it is first set in > automagicaly setting the value in $_COOKIE[] or even as a global > variable with register_globals=on would cause more confusion than > it would help > > again: please try to understand how the HTTP protocol in general > and especialy the Cookie mechanism work > > for cookie specification see > http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html > (as mentioned on http://php.net/setcookie) > > for HTTP 1.1 see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616 > > > > > >-- > Hartmut Holzgraefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.six.de > +49-711-99091-77 > > Wir stellen für Sie aus auf der CeBIT 2002 und freuen uns > in Halle 6 auf Ihren Besuch am Stand H 18 > > >-- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
