note 98096 added to function.setcookie

danjr33AT
Newsgroups php.notes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I haven't seen any notes yet on this, so I wanted to give an example of setting a cookie and having the value available BEFORE you reload the page.
First, a disclaimer: this is only a workaround and it does not verify that the cookie was properly saved.

In some cases, it may be important to be able to access a cookie on the same page load. For example for my website I was using $_COOKIE['language'] to store and check the current interface language for the user. When this was changed I needed to use the new value on the SAME page load, and I didn't want to add a conditional statement to the later code.

This function is exactly identical to setcookie() except that it also sets $_COOKIE['cookiename'] to "cookievalue" and that will then be available on the same page load.

<?php
function setcookielive($name, $value='', $expire=0, $path='', $domain='', $secure=false, $httponly=false) {
	//set a cookie as usual, but ALSO add it to $_COOKIE so the current page load has access
	$_COOKIE[$name] = $value;
	return setcookie($name,$value,$expire,$path,$domain,$secure,$httponly);
}
?>
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