access a cookie’s value immediately after calling the setcookie()

If you want to access a cookie’s value immediately after calling the setcookie() you can’t use $_COOKIE. The reason for this is in the nature of the protocol (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265). When you use setcookie() it defines a Cookie to be sent along with the rest of the HTTP headers to the client (see http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php). But […]