Cookie does not set

Question

I have a cookie that will not set on the remote server, works find locally. No error messages, var_dump gets me Null, echo is blank.

Answer 1

You can't read the value of a cookie until a new page request is made. This is because the value of cookie data is sent with the page request. So it isn't available for to access its value until after it is set and a new page request is made.

Also, session_start() has no effect on cookies. They are two different things. (Sessions do typically use cookies to store the session ID but that is irrelevant).