[ciapug] Cookies...

[Chris Van Cleve]

Wait. you can name the cookie with a . but you have to reference it 
with an _ it will work. It's some weird thing in later versions of PHP
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 05:39  PM, David Champion wrote:

> Just FYI - if you're ever writing a cookie name... don't put periods 
> in the name, i.e. "my_cookie.1" is a no-no, but "my_cookie_1" is OK.
>
> I found this because I was writing cookies with a dynamic name with 
> the period in it, and PHP would write the cookie just fine, but 
> $_COOKIE["my_cookie.1"] is always an empty string. Changing the period 
> to the underscore fixed it.
>
> Grr.
>
> -dc
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