extracting information from cookies

[Dynamo3209]

Hi,
I am developing an e-commerce site. I am putting all the items purchased by the customer into a cookie, now on the chekout page I want to display all the items selected for purchase by the customer, how can I extract this info from the cookie.

Thanks,
Dynamo.

 

[skiflyer]

print_r($_COOKIE);

will show you everything you saved.

Might I suggest looking into SESSION variables though? Not everyone has cookies enabled, and they'll be able to tinker with what you've put in the cookie.


-Rob

 

[DRJ478]

Just a note:
If they don't have cookies enabled you'd have to use a special case of sessions, since standard PHP sessions operate with a cookie also. It is, however, much smaller and only holds a unique reference ID for the data which will be temporarily stored on the server.

 

[ingresman]

1. Cookies only store up to about 4k
2. Don't put stuff into cookies !, what I mean is use the php session id as a key into a db (such as mysql) and put any stuff in there. I know this adds complexity as you will to have housekeep this table but it is safer. Unless the cookie is encrypted you can look at it anyway.