[ciapug] Cookies...

[Chris Van Cleve]

Well, I just know that it works that way for everything coming across 
to a php page. $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST, $_COOKIE etc. I don't know 
why, but that's how they coded it.

Vanish

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:14  PM, David Champion wrote:

> LOL, you could do that... if you were insane.
> -dc
>
> Chris Van Cleve wrote:
>
>> 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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