get cookie?

merlin posted this at 15:08 — 21st February 2001.

Joined: Oct 1999

the whole day i'm already working on that, knowing, it can't be THIS difficult.

here we go:
i have a cookie set like this .
when a visitor comes back to the page, i'd like to receive the data of the cookie and put it into some form-fields, each cookie in one.
i tried to split up $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}:

foreach $env_cookie ($ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}) {
@allcookies = split (/\* /, $env_cookie);
}

'
and put it into several $:

foreach $cookie (@allcookies) {
($titlecookie,$storycookie) = split(/;/);
}
$cookie = "";
my ($titlecookiename, $titlecookievalue);
foreach $cookie ($titlecookie) {
 ($titlecookiename,$titlecookievalue) = split(/=/, $cookie);
 }
$cookie = "";
my ($storycookiename, $storycookievalue);
foreach $cookie ($storycookie) {
 ($storycookiename,$storycookievalue) = split(/=/, $cookie);
 }

but somehow, it doesn't do it. i check it with print, and it only prints the $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}-thingy.

what am i doing wrong? am i going the right way or do i miss any important thing?

thank you for your help!
ali

merlin posted this at 13:49 — 22nd February 2001.

They have: 410 posts

Joined: Oct 1999

i knew it couldn't be that hard!
what was wrong: i tried to get the cookie in a seperate sub. well, that didn't work, i had to do it in the same sub as i print out the form.
but i suppose, there must be a way to get the cookie in another sub?

$titlecookie = $query->cookie("cookiename1");
$storycookie = $query->cookie("cookiename2");

thanks for your patience...