how to store raw json string in cookie with PHP?

Question

I am trying to store a json string in a cookie, however, the special characters, such as; {"":""} get encoded.

I have tried setrawcookie(), but it doesn't store more than one property-value.

$array = array('test' => 'value', 'anothertest' => 'not stored');

setrawcookie($this->cookie_customs_name, stripslashes(json_encode($array)), 
    strtotime($this->cookie_life_time), $this->cookie_path, $this->cookie_domain);

What am I doing wrong here?

Also, is it possible to achieve this using the setcookie() method?

Answer 1

The special characters should be escaped automatically when you use setcookie(). You should just need to remove the slashes once you retrieve the cookie.

$array = array(....);

setcookie($this->cookie_customs_name, json_encode($array), ...);

When retrieving the cookie:

$cookie = stripslashes($_COOKIE[$this->cookie_customs_name]);
$cookie = json_decode($cookie);

Untested, but should be all that is needed.