[SOLVED] Can I set a cookie name with a variable?

[blurredvision]

I have a cookie that I'm setting like such:

 

setcookie("cookiename", $value, time()+3600*24*5);

 

That works perfectly fine.  However, I'm now wanting to create my cookie in a different way, by using a variable to set the name of the cookie.  Here's what I'd like to do:

 

setcookie($cookie1, $value, time()+3600*24*5);

 

I cannot get that work.  Can you not use a variable to set the cookie name, or is my syntax wrong?

[flyhoney]

Yeah you definitely can.  Make sure that $cookie1 is a string, and not some other data type.

[blurredvision]

It's definitely a string.  I've even echoed the variable to make sure it's showing how I want it, and it is.  The cookie just doesn't create.  Is my syntax correct?

[flyhoney]

Hmm, maybe it is an invalid string?  Are there any weird characters in it?

[blurredvision]

There is an underscore.  Other than that, just letters and a single number.  I'm getting part of the string through a function argument, then concatenating a number on to the end.  Maybe that's messing with it somehow?

[blurredvision]

Figured out what I was doing wrong.  I was completely forgetting to pass the $value into the function.  What a stupid oversight.   I was so stuck on trying to find through google if it was correct syntax or not that I didn't look at other factors.

 

Thanks flyhoney, sorry to waste your time.