Accessing $_COOKIE immediately after setcookie()

Question

I\'m trying to access a cookie\'s value (using $_COOKIE) immediately after calling the setcookie() function in PHP. When I do so, $_COOKIE[\

Answer 1

You have to set the cookie variable by yourself if you need it immediately, by the time you load another page the real cookie would have been set as a result of the setcookie method.

setcookie('name', $value, time()+60*30);
$_COOKIE ['name'] = $value;