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Processing a cookie with PHP

Thread began 1/29/2010 4:57 am by info58953 | Last modified 2/08/2010 11:13 am by Jimmy Wu | 5644 views | 10 replies |

1/29/2010 4:57 am | #1 info58953

Processing a cookie with PHP

In an order form a cookie named "amount" is saved, later the order will be processed with PHP:

<?php
require_once('xyz.class.php');
$partner_id = '123456';
$amount = ***;
$description = 'Your order';
.....
.....
.....
?>

So I need to fill $amount in the code above with the cookie "amount". I've tried WA_CookieObj.getValue("amount") in several ways without any good result. Does anyone know how to do this

1/29/2010 12:16 pm | #2 Dani Chankhour

try

$amount = $_COOKIE["amount"];

1/30/2010 3:18 am | #3 info58953

Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not work in this case because "$amount" is not filled with the cookie variable. Just tried two ways:

$amount = $_COOKIE["amount"];
and
$amount = $_COOKIE['amount'];

To be sure the the PHP-script is okay I've tried entering 5678:

<?php
require_once('xyz.class.php');
$partner_id = '123456';
$amount = '5678';
$description = 'Your order';
.....
?>

With above code the script seems okay. Do you have another suggestion entering the cookie value in $amount?

2/03/2010 1:35 am | #4 info58953

Originally Said By: info58953

Nobody any suggestion to solve this?

2/03/2010 2:18 pm | #5 Jimmy Wu

Are you sure that the cookie is being saved and with that particular name? To get a cookie value in PHP, you would use the $_COOKIE call. How is the cookie being set?

2/04/2010 2:12 am | #6 info58953

Yes, the cookie has been saved with the correct name. I've set the cookie in the first page (order form):

WA_setCookie(WA_CookieObj,'Amount',document.form1.Amount.value,true,0,30);

This works fine because I can display the cookie on the next page:

The total amount is:
<script name="WACookieDis">
document.write(WA_CookieObj.getValue("Amount"));
</script>

So this looks okay, Cookies Toolkit stores en displays the cookie named "Amount".

--------------------------------------------------------------------

After the orderform was submitted a next (second) page shows order details and forwards customer to the payment provider with several variables. One of them is the total amount value $amount, i.c. the cookie named "Amount". This is my code on the second page:

<?php
require_once('ideal.class.php');
$partner_id = '12345';
$amount = '1250'
...
<html>
<head>
<title>Second Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<script src="WA_Cookies/Cookies.js"></script>
...
</head>
<body>
...
Here the cookie is shown:
<script name="WACookieDis">
document.write(WA_CookieObj.getValue("Amount"));
</script>
...
[parts of payment provider PHP code stays here]
...
</body>
</html>

When I use in this page:

$amount = $_COOKIE["Amount"];

the payment provider reports an error "amount not correct" without further comments. But when I use:

$amount ='1250';

the payment provider accepts the request, everything is okay. So i'm afraid "$amount" is not filled with the cookie "Amount" by using $amount = $_COOKIE["Amount"];

2/04/2010 10:21 am | #7 Jimmy Wu

Are you able to display the cookie stored amount on that page without setting it into the variable?

2/04/2010 10:27 am | #8 info58953

Originally Said By: Jimmy Wu

Are you able to display the cookie stored amount on that page without setting it into the variable?

Yes I can with:

<script name="WACookieDis">
document.write(WA_CookieObj.getValue("Amount"));
</script>

2/04/2010 4:25 pm | #9 Jimmy Wu

Cookies are stored as strings. Since the value of the amount is not supposed to be stored as a string, you will have to cast the string into a float before storing it into the $amount variable:
$amount = (float) WA_CookieObj.getValue("Amount");

or
$amount = (float) $_COOKIE["Amount"];

Those should both work.

2/08/2010 7:55 am | #10 info58953

Thanks again for your reply. Finally I've found what went wrong, the code after A) doesn't work and B) solved my problem:

A) $amount = $_COOKIE["amount"];
B) $amount = $_COOKIE["AMOUNT"];

Although the cookie was set with Cookies Toolkit in lowercase, in PHP it was necessary to get it in UPPERCASE like all other cookies. This was shown with the next code:

<?php
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>

Strange, but it displays an array with all cookie names in uppercase. Anyway my problem was solved and my PHP-skills were trained ;-)

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