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Re: [PHP3] Cookie Confusion .. From: TomHenry (tomhenry <email protected>)
Date: 05/16/00

Data in a cookie set on one page is not available till reload or the next
page (unless the variable name and the cookie name are the same ;-)

One (simplistic) way might be to create an associative array of the
"name=Value" pairs and pop that into a cookie (serialize() before setting
the cookie)

Then unserialize() the cookie return value to recover the array of the
"name=Value" pairs on the next page and recreate the Name=Value pairs for
the variables.

Otherwise (brute force method) on each succeeding page you can stuff the
POST_VARS array into hidden FORM variable (ugly)

If I know how to use 'shared memory' this message would become _way_ too
long, instead of just 'too long'

HTH
Tom Henry

At 03:16 AM 5/16/00 +0000, Christian wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a situation where I collect user details via a form ..
>I do not wish to enter them into MySQL straight away ..
>As further processing, collection and validation has to be done ..
>Therefore if one area fails no entry will be made ..
>So I need a way of temp storing this data over multiple pages ..
>
>I thought of setting a cookie .. But am having problems ...
>What is the procedure for setting a cookie to form contents ..
>--> where is the setcookie code() called, current or called page ?
>
>Can someone please help with the cookie code ..
>Or maybe suggest a better way of temp storing the form data ..
>
>Thanks heaps,
>
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