Question

I have a file with the following code block inside some of the page html:

<input name="appname" type="text" value="<?php Load('appname'); ?>" placeholder="Your App Name" />

which calls this function:

<?php
// Load cookie values 
function Load($item) {
    $item = strtolower($item);
    if(!$_COOKIE['appsite_'.$item]) return null;
    return $_COOKIE['appsite_'.$item];
}
?>

The function is at the top of the HTML file, the cookies are created but for some reason the code inside the input HTML markup is not being executed.

I can access the value of the cookie by doing the following just beneath the function:

$item = "appname";
echo $_COOKIE['w8appsite_'.$item];

It seems like the PHP code lower down the file is just not being executed?

Answer 1

Try the following:

<input name="appname" type="text" value="<?php echo Load('appname'); ?>" placeholder="Your App Name" />

You need to echo strings in PHP