show all cookies

[lAZLf]

I'm trying to show all the users cookies. So far I've tried:

echo $HTTP_GET_VARS["cookie"];

 

and

 

print_r($_COOKIE);

 

In the first one, I don't get anything return, in the second i get "Array ( )".

 

How do I do this? I want to write the user's cookies to a log. So in the long run I want it to be able to work in the fwrite() function.

[Alex]

The second is correct. You just don't have any cookies set.

[jcbones]

$_COOKIE will return an empty array, if $_COOKIE is not set.

if(!empty($_COOKIE)) {
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_COOKIE);
echo '</pre>';
}
else {
echo 'There are no Cookies, you must bake some.';
}

[lAZLf]

I ran that and it confirmed that i don't have any cookies set, but I'm logged into my admin account on my website (where that file is). Where does that search for the cookies?

[jcbones]

The users computer.

 

Cookies are always on the end users computer.  Unlike Sessions which is on your web server.

[lAZLf]

But there are many, many, many cookies on my computer, including the cookies used to log in on my website by checking the "remember me" tick, why aren't they showing up?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Cookies are domain specific.

 

Also, depending on the subdomain/hostname and path settings in the cookie, cookies can also be specific to the subdomain/hostname and path where they were set.

 

Only valid cookies (that have not expired), that match the domain, and optionally match the subdomain/hostname and path of the URL that is being requested will be sent to the server with the http request.

[lAZLf]

My code:

<?php

if(!empty($_COOKIE)) {
$cookie = print_r($_COOKIE);
}
else {
$cookie = 'There are no Cookies, you must bake some.';
echo $cookie;
}

$date = date("I ds of F Y h:i:s A");
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

$file = fopen("log.txt", "a");
fwrite($file, "DATE : $date || USER AGENT : $user_agent || COOKIE : $cookie \n");
fclose($file);

?>

 

So far, it only works with Firefox, not safari. In firefox it prints the cookies, but it writes into the log file "... COOKIE : 1".

In safari it says that there are no cookies set, although there are.

 

Anybody know why it writes COOKIE : 1 in the file in firefox, and nothing in safari?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

print_r() only returns the data if you set the second parameter to TRUE.

 

You do realize that each browser you have maintains separate cookies and would only supply its' cookies to the server with the http request.

[lAZLf]

Yes I do realize that, but could you elaborate on the http request? I've never been able to understand those

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol