cheers Jack but Ive tried this and get the error msg:
Warning: Undefined variable: user_id in
C:/XITAMI/webpages/netrux/intothemain.php on line 14
so its not setting the varible by the looks of it.... any ideas? cheers
Jack Sasportas wrote in message
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>If you just echo $userid you will get the results.
>
>do this
>setcookie ("cookie_variable", "chocalate chip", 1, "", "", 1);
>
>echo $cookie_variable
>
>You can name the cookie_variable whatever you want and that will be
referenced
>as the variable to store "chocalate chip".
>Now if you want to see the value from within a function you will need to
also do
>this:
>
> global $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS;
>
>this will enable you to see the values stored in the cookies.
>
>Andrew Rose wrote:
>
>> Ive been playing with setcookie() and am stuck with trying to re-pull the
>> infomation I set, I use:
>>
>> setcookie ("user_id", $userid, 1, "", "", 1);
>>
>> to set the cookie and:
>>
>> if(isset( $user_id )){
>> echo " cookie 'user_id': $user_id\n";
>> } else
>>
>> echo" no cookie set ...\n";
>> }
>>
>> to see if its there.. now this is the closest Ive seen anyone else do it
and
>> to me it dosnt make much sense at all the code for retrieving.. also it
>> dosnt work.. suprise suprise.. so anyone know how to do this?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> -Andrew Rose
>>
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