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Im just having a play with cookies and im stuck on this. I just want to be able to store a value in a cookie and retreive it at a given time.
So I use the statement

This the below code could create a cookie called "username" and set the value to "my name"

this code should retreive the cookie


But for some reason its either not storing the cookie correctly or retreiving the cookie correctly. Have I missed something here?
Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

$to_set is a reference to a Perl cookie object. The cookie doesn't actually get sent to the browser until it's output in an HTTP header. The CGI.pm documentation illustrates how to do this.

The cookie has to be fetched by a separate HTTP request, e.g., a separate invocation of a script.

ok... this is the way i use;


also, you must set cookie inside the header method & you must print the cookie before the header as the code above...

if you call this code after printing header, it wont work...

[ 10-03-2001: Message edited by: jeologic ]

Hmm I cant seem to work this out.
Ive tried


and im left with a blank screen.

What I basically need to do is.
A subroutine is called, when its called I need to get the value of a cookie, if its not blank then 'do this' else 'do that' and set the value ot the cookie to 'blah'.

How could that be acheived?

Thank You.

Anyone, all there Perl Gurus around here and no suggestions ?
Thanks

as I said... first set the cookie, then print the http header. it must work...

enable warnings and use CGI::Carp to see the error..


also, $query is a CGI object;