PHP Can't read cookies?

Question

I like to use PHP to see if a cookie PHPSID27258STATUS is present with the value COMPLETE en if so do stuff.

In google chrome (in Options) I can see this cookie is present and has the value COMPLETE.

If I run this PHP script I get 'Not Set'. What am I doing wrong here?

$cookiename="PHPSID27258STATUS";
if (isset($_COOKIE[$cookiename]) && $_COOKIE[$cookiename] == "COMPLETE")

--update
The cookie is set by "limesurvey" an open source survey platform. Although its probably not the best way. I use limesurvey to have a small survey (iframe) on an site i'm building. I like to let the survey disappear on the next visit when it has bin posted. Limesurvey runs from the same host (localhost now). And is in a sub directory of the site.

I guess (but there's a lot of code in LS) this is how the cookie is made after an poll/post is completed.

$cookiename="PHPSID".returnglobal('sid')."STATUS";
setcookie("$cookiename", "COMPLETE", time() + 31536000); //Cookie will expire in 365 days

Answer 1

You can only read cookies which belong to the same domain as the reading script. For instance if the cookie PHPSID27258STATUS was set by domain xyz.com, you can not read it using a script on abc.com. So make sure the domain of your desired cookie is the same. Also show us the code part where you are setting your cookie.

Edit:

setcookie($cookiename, "COMPLETE", (time() + 31536000) , '/');

Answer 2

Try setting the cookie with this code:

setcookie("cookiename", "cookievalue", time() + 31536000, "/");

This makes the cookie available to the whole domain, I recently encountered the same issue and when I tried this, it made it work, the reason is, your browser stores cookies for both domain.com and www.domain.com so you never know which your setting and getting from, it's good practice to set the domain even if you don't have this problem.