Question

I want to store some information in the local browser cookie. After hours looking for a nice tutorial, I managed to store some data in a non-session cookie:

controller – indexAction()

$cookieGuest = array(
    'name'  => 'mycookie',
    'value' => 'testval',
    'path'  => $this->generateUrl('my_route'),
    'time'  => time() + 3600 * 24 * 7
);

$cookie = new Cookie($cookieGuest['name'], $cookieGuest['value'], $cookieGuest['time'], $cookieGuest['path']);

$response = new Response();
$response->headers->setCookie($cookie);
$response->send();

I wonder if this is the correct way. Furthermore I tried several ways to read the cookie with the HttpFoundation Component, but without success. Is there another way than accessing the cookie via $_COOKIE[‘mycookie’] ?

Here is where I try to read the cookie

controller – cookieAction()

public function cookieAction($_locale, $branch, $page) 
{   
    $response = new Response();
    $cookies = $response->headers->getCookies();

    var_dump($cookies);

// TODO: Get params for indexAction from cookie if available

    return $this->indexAction($_locale, $branch, $page);
}

Answer 1

$response->headers->getCookies();

should return an array of cookies look in ResponseHeaderBag class for more information about that function