Question

hello i am trying to pass a cookie from one page to another, and its just not working for some reason

i set the cookie in php.

Page a:

   <?php $cc= 'testcookie';
    setcookie("cc", $video, time()+36000);
     ?>

and i try to read the cookie in JS.

Page b:

function readCookie(name) {  

var cookiename = name + '=';  

var ca = document.cookie.split(';');  

for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++)  
{  

    var c = ca[i];  

    while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);  

    if (c.indexOf(cookiename) == 0) return c.substring(cookiename.length,c.length);  

}  

return null;  
}

and i always get null…

when i try to set the cookie in the same page that i try to read it, it works…

any ideas?

Answer 1

You may try setcookie("cc", $video, time()+36000, "/", "example.com"); to specify the domain and the path. "/" mean full domain. And sometimes there may occur some problems with cookies if try to use them on the http://localhost/ .