Sorry, didn't know cookies were plain text.
So serialization *should* work always, but it doesn't if you set the
encryption option to *off*.
I'm just sharing information trying to save others the hours I've spent with
this problem.
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Baz L
Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Javascript
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I agree with Grant Cox..
You can't just write any variable to a cookie. With plaintext strings
this works, but when you have complex datatypes like multidimensional
arrays, you have to convert it somehow to a plaintext string.
This is exactly where the serialize() function kicks in: the only
thing
The reason it works in the first controller is because it is not
reading from the cookie itself - it also saves the data to a local
variable and it is reading back from that. Because there is no
automatic serialization going on, only strings are written to the
cookie - so a complex data type will
Thanks for the response, but here's a few FYIs.
- What I posted before works fine with Sessions. That's actually how I
determined the problem. I was building a "remember me" for a login. And I
thought I could just dump the session variable in a cookie and retrieve
later. So maybe if a
*Probably* the following will work:
before writing your array to the cookie:
$arr = serialize($arr);
after reading it from your cookie (when $cookval is the value you read
from your cookie):
$arr = @unserialize($cookval);
This way you should have your whole array back.
Note however that I didn
*Sigh*,
So I've been pulling out my hair for a while until I figured, this thing
just doesn't work the way it should.
Here's my scenario very simplified with test data:
Controller1:
$arr['name']['1'] = '21';
$arr['name']['2'] = '21';
$arr['name1']['1'] = '21';
$this->Cookie->write('zilla', $arr
