Set cookie wih JS, read with PHP problem

Read on setting Javascript cookies and in particular path and domain access here:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

I think what is happening is one of two things:

1. You aren’t accessing the cookie from the same domain/subdomain, and/or
2. the other page is not part of the path the cookie has specified.

So your cookie is not giving the relevant information to the browser for it to be accessible across subdomains and/or the directory path.

document.cookie="ppkcookie1=testcookie; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC; path=/; ;domain=.example.com"

Note, .example.com is just an example domain (you need yours in there), and you do not need a wildcard other than the initial . for it go across all subdomains. And you need to generate an expires= date. From QuirksMode:

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
    if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
        var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
    } else {
        var expires = "";
    }
    document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/; domain=.example.com";
}

I added the domain= bit to QuirksMode’s function.

EDIT (The example below originally referenced pages on my personal website.)

Andrej, this works perfectly fine for me:

http://example.com/test.php

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
    if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
        var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
    }
    else var expires = "";
    document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/; domain=.example.com";
}

createCookie('cookieee','stuff','22');

http://example.com/test/test.php

<pre>
<?php 

print_r($_COOKIE);

?>

And the printout of $_COOKIE will show the cookie. Note I when I inspect the cookie the .example.com is set correctly as the domain.