PHP Forum

**grace04** · 04-25-2005, 12:31 PM

I just pasted this simple example to document but got gibberish.

I place the code before <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC tag.

What am I doing wrong ?

<?php
// Print an individual cookie
echo $_COOKIE["TestCookie"];
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["TestCookie"];

// Another way to debug/test is to view all cookies
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>

Thank you so much!

**Republikin** · 04-25-2005, 01:15 PM

Really, I've never seen a gibberish error before, could you show me what that looks like?

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 05:38 PM

Hey,

for the code above i'm getting:

$value) { echo "$name : $value
\n"; } } ?>

in my web browser...

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 05:41 PM

Do any one have a simple php/cockies code I can look at or

send me to a good tutorial about the subject ?

Thank you !

-- Grace

**Republikin** · 04-26-2005, 05:47 PM

Does your server support PHP?

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 05:52 PM

**0beron** · 04-26-2005, 06:08 PM

Looks like it is spitting out some other part of your code - check that your <? and ?> tags are matched and that you've matched up quotes around your strings and matched up the starts and ends of comments etc.

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 06:24 PM

I changed it to the following:

$Age_Group = $_POST['Age_Group'];
setcookie("Age", $Age_Group);

if ($_COOKIE['Age'] == '21 - 25')

{

echo "Hello, ".$_COOKIE['Age']."I choose the 0-20 age group!";

}

else ($_COOKIE['Age'] == '21 - 25')
{

echo "Hello, ".$_COOKIE['Age']."! So I guess you like them a bit older!";

}

But getting this blurb back -

"; // } // elseif ($APrefGender == 'Women') // { // echo ""; // } // echo " "; $Age_Group = $_POST['Age_Group']; setcookie("Age", $Age_Group); ?>

any ideas ?

Can i use only isset with cookie ?

**leavethisplace** · 04-26-2005, 06:31 PM

No, your PHP is spitting out your code, it is not an error in PHP or Cookies. You've done your coding wrong, we need to see ALL of your code, not a snippet, the whole file that is associated with the action. Please

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 06:37 PM

Here you go: Thx !

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>

<form method="post" action="C.php">

<?

$Age_Group = $_POST['Age_Group'];
setcookie("Age", $Age_Group);

?>

<p>I am interesting in some insights about echamist<strong></strong>ry from folks in thier :
<select name="topic">
<option>Select Topic</option>
<option>A</option>
<option>B</option>
<option>C</option>
<option>D</option>
<option>E</option>
<option>41 - 99</option>
</select>
</p>

<?

if ($HTTP_cookie_VARS[Age] == "0 - 20")
{

echo "Hello, ".$_COOKIE['Age']."! So you like them young!";

}

else
{

echo "Hello, ".$_COOKIE['Age']."! So I guess you like them a bit older!";

}

?>

<INPUT name="submit" TYPE='submit' VALUE='Please Click Here To Continue'>

</form>
</body>
</html>

**0beron** · 04-26-2005, 06:51 PM

Ok, what's on C.php? I'm guessing it is AFTER you submit the form that you get this problem, and that C.php has a problem causing it display some of its code.

**leavethisplace** · 04-26-2005, 06:51 PM

hmm, odd. That error message your getting don't seem to match any of your code, u using external files?

The else in the argument should be next to the closing bracket of the if statement too.

Oberon u got anything to say? Need wiser eyes.

**grace04** · 04-26-2005, 07:00 PM

the 3 pages are A.php, B.php. C.php
In page A I'm setting the Age group Variable then in page B which you see the code for, I wrote the echo stmt but they are not coming up.

There is no error msg just yet, i am not getting the echo stmt on this page either.
Why ?

My goal in this - Get users inpout on page A.php & B.php and based on that send them to another page

Is there a sample code any of you guys have that I can look at ?

Thank you for your kindness. gs

**0beron** · 04-27-2005, 12:34 AM

leavethisplace, I agree it's really odd that none of the code that gets echoed is on that file. The only external file I can see is C.php, which is where the form gets submitted to.

grace04, can you show us the code for all three files so we can have a look for where the problem is? Also, please enclose your php code in [php ][/php ] tags (minus the spaces), it makes it an awful lot easier to read, plus the syntax highlighter will probably spot this problem for us