Re: _COOKIE[] unique?

newtophp2000@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I may be getting confused over nothing here but ...

I was wondering if the _COOKIE global is unqiue to each visitor or is
it global across all visitor sessions?  If it is truly global on the
server side, is it possible that a cookie from one user's session may
corrupt another user's session?  How would I know which cookie goes
with which user session/browser?


$_COOKIE will only have cookies for current visitor, I believe they are sent over via http request :) Global in this context means that $_COOKIE is accessible from anywhere in the script, not that it has the cookies of all user sessions.


luph
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