command line

Hi,

Can we set a cookie from the command line.
I have tried
<?php
 setcookie('TestCookie','allo',time()+360
0);
echo "->".isset($_COOKIE['TestCookie']);
?>

echo gives:  ->

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Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can we set a cookie from the command line.
> I have tried
> <?php
>    setcookie('TestCookie','allo',time()+360
0);
> echo "->".isset($_COOKIE['TestCookie']);
> ?>
>
> echo gives:  ->

Firstly, even with a browser, the echo statement will be empty until the
page is refreshed, because setcookie("TestCookie", ...) does not set
$_COOKIE["TestCookie"] directly.

Secondly, with the command line, how could the cookie possibly be
transferred or stored? There is no browser, and hence no HTTP transfer,
and hence no HTTP headers, and hence no cookie transfer.



--
Oli

Can it be done?

Sending the headers, etc.?


"Oli Filth" <catch@olifilth.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de news:
IQ8ae.730$p06.375@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
| Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > Can we set a cookie from the command line.
| > I have tried
| > <?php
| >    setcookie('TestCookie','allo',time()+360
0);
| > echo "->".isset($_COOKIE['TestCookie']);
| > ?>
| >
| > echo gives:  ->
|
| Firstly, even with a browser, the echo statement will be empty until the
| page is refreshed, because setcookie("TestCookie", ...) does not set
| $_COOKIE["TestCookie"] directly.
|
| Secondly, with the command line, how could the cookie possibly be
| transferred or stored? There is no browser, and hence no HTTP transfer,
| and hence no HTTP headers, and hence no cookie transfer.
|
|
|
| --
| Oli

Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
> Can it be done?
>
> Sending the headers, etc.?
>

No! Think about it! You're at the command line, so you're not *sending*
anything anywhere. There is no server, and no client. HTTP and TCP/IP
are not involved. At the command line, PHP has nothing to do with the
web, it's a stand-alone scripting language.

And you're not in a browser, so the concept of cookies is meaningless.
Just as URLs, HTML, CSS and forms are meaningless in a command-line context.

I suggest that you spend some time reading up about how web-browsing and
the internet actually work, you'll understand what PHP *does* a lot
better. If you don't, everything PHP does might as well be "magic". ;)

--
Oli

Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:

> Can it be done?
>
> Sending the headers, etc.?

What are you actually trying to do? Headers, cookies etc are meaningless
from the command line as Oli pointed out.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can we set a cookie from the command line.
> I have tried
> <?php
>    setcookie('TestCookie','allo',time()+360
0);
> echo "->".isset($_COOKIE['TestCookie']);
> ?>
>
> echo gives:  ->

Firstly, even with a browser, the echo statement will be empty until the
page is refreshed, because setcookie("TestCookie", ...) does not set
$_COOKIE["TestCookie"] directly.

Secondly, with the command line, how could the cookie possibly be
transferred or stored? There is no browser, and hence no HTTP transfer,
and hence no HTTP headers, and hence no cookie transfer.



--
Oli

Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:

> Can it be done?
>
> Sending the headers, etc.?

What are you actually trying to do? Headers, cookies etc are meaningless
from the command line as Oli pointed out.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Well. Ok.

I thought it would have been interesting to test snip of codes. I know I can
test them with a Browser. In fact I use easy hp for that.

Thank to you (s).


N.B: (s) means many of you.
"Chris Hope" <blackhole@electrictoolbox.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: d4c59c$om4$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
| Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
|
| > Can it be done?
| >
| > Sending the headers, etc.?
|
| What are you actually trying to do? Headers, cookies etc are meaningless
| from the command line as Oli pointed out.
|
| --
| Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com