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
