On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Is this block of code executed immediately after the cookie is
> > set? Sometimes PHP works too fast for its own good and the client
> > doesn't even realize it has a cookie yet. Try setting it with one
> > page and either sleep()'ing for a bit or forcing a link-click or page
> > refresh before checking for the cookie.
>
> Um... Cookie data ISN'T available to the same script that sets it. If
> you use setcookie(), all it does is send a header to the browser
> immediately ahead of the output of your script telling the browser to
> store those values in either memory or on disk. The value will not
> appear in the $_COOKIE array until the browser requests the next page
> and includes the Cookie: header as part of the request.
You're correct. I was saying basically the same thing, but
re-reading it, it sure doesn't look like it in English. ;-P
The sentences should've instead been rewritten like so:
"Try setting it with one page and forcing a link-click or
sleep()'ing for a bit and then refreshing."
It wasn't meant to insinuate
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