Question

Cookies arent being set in my first view.

Is this how it should be ? or am I mistaken

Please view the code below for further illustration:

 if( !get_cookie('rate') ){



            $cookie_rate = array(
                   'name'   => 'rate',
                   'value'  => '10',
                   'expire' => '100000'
             );

             set_cookie($cookie_rate);
     }
   var_dump( get_cookie('rate') ); //returns ( boolean false )

   if( !isset($_COOKIE['foo']) ){
            $_COOKIE['foo'] = 'bar';
   }

   var_dump( $_COOKIE['foo'] ); // This yields string 'bar' (length=3) on the first visit 

Doing the same thing with php cookies yeilds an array with cookie values.

• This problem persists only in the first visit of a page.

Answer 1

This isn’t a CodeIgniter vs PHP issue. You just don’t understand how cookies work.

Cookies are a header sent by the server which the browser must send back on subsequent requests. $this->input->set_cookie() and set_cookie() send a cookie header.

$_COOKIES on PHP (and thus $this->input->cookie() and therefore the get_cookie() helper) only contain cookies which the browser sent.

Thus when you set a cookie with set_cookie(), you won’t be able to get_cookie() until the browser’s next request.