Using arrays in cookies?

[cyphix]

Is there a way to successfully use arrays in cookies? Like I wanna add to the cookie but it doesn't seem to work..

Tried doing this but it doesn't seem to work..

PHP Code:

setcookie("cookiename[]", somedata, time() + 15768000, '/', '.domain.com'); 


Any ideas??

Thanks!

[Kurashu]

Serialize the array.

http://www.php.net/serialize

[cyphix]

Could u give me an example? I'm not sure I'm understanding it correctly.

[Kurashu]

PHP Code:

$array = array('one', 'two' 'tacos' => 'three');
$somedata = serialize($array);
setcookie("cookiename", $somedata, time() + 15768000, '/', '.domain.com'); 


[cyphix]

Hmm.... but how would you use that to add to an exisiting cookie?

[Kurashu]

I'm not sure, I don't work with cookies enough to tell you.

[cyphix]

Oh ok... thx 4 the help anyways!

[marek_mar]

You should just watch out for one thing. The serialized arrays carry their types of values unlike _POST/_GET (where everything is a string) so you might want to check if the types are correct.