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PHP

Posted by Nils Garland
Nils Garland
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Changing Cookie Values In PHP

Hi! I am making a sort of pretend search engine where you enter anything in the input and it will return the searches in a browser. This works fine but I wanted to add the option of changing the browser you where searching on as the default was DuckDuckGo. I am currently trying to change it to google by the click of a button. But when I set the Cookie, and then I try to change it, nothing seems to happen with the value. here is my code. I have also tried and the Cookie is actually set.

PHP:

<?php
setcookie(
  "browser",
  "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=",
  time() + (10 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60)
);

$current_browser = "DuckDuckGo";

if(isset($_POST["browser_url"])) {
    $new_browser_url = $_POST["browser_url"];

    setcookie('browser', $new_browser_url, time() + (10 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60), '/');
}

?>

HTML Form:

<form action="index.php" method="post">
                    <input type="hidden" name="browser_url" value="https://google.com/search?q=">
                    <button class="thumbnail" value="submit"><img src="google.jpg" width="100%"></button>
                </form>