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PHP can't get cookie that was set in javascript

I am using PHP 8.0 and this is a wordpress site version 6.1.1
I have a plugin that is setting a cookie like so:
window.tourmaster_set_cookie = function( cname, cvalue, expires ){
if( typeof(expires) != 'undefined' ){
if( expires == 0 ){
expires = 86400;
}
var now = new Date();
var new_time = now.getTime() + (parseInt(expires) * 1000);
now.setTime(new_time);
expires = now.toGMTString();
}
document.cookie = cname + "=" + encodeURIComponent(cvalue) + "; expires=" + expires + "; path=/";
}
This is being called like so:
tourmaster_set_cookie('tourmaster-room-cart', JSON.stringify(cart_cookie), 31536000);
I can see in my console log that this cookie is being set.
However when I try to get the cookie in PHP:
$_COOKIE['tourmaster-room-cart']
I get this error:
Warning: Undefined array key "tourmaster-room-cart"
When I do a print_r on $_COOKIE the cookie "tourmaster-room-cart" is not there.
What is going wrong here and how can I fix it?
UPDATE
I created this simple cookie:
document.cookie = "username=John Doe; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
and it appears in my php $_COOKIE;
However this does not show up in $_COOKIE
window.tourmaster_set_cookie = function( cname, cvalue, expires ){
expires = "Thu, 1 Jan 2026 12:00:00 UTC";
if( typeof(expires) != 'undefined' ){
if( expires == 0 ){
expires = 86400;
}
var now = new Date();
var new_time = now.getTime() + (parseInt(expires) * 1000);
now.setTime(new_time);
expires = now.toGMTString();
}
document.cookie = cname + "=test; expires=Thu, 1 Jan 2026 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
}
ANOTHER UPDATE
I added a few more cookies to see if they would get displayed with $_COOKIES, they all did except for the last test with encodeURIComponent(cvalue) as the value. It must be something in my value? Here is the updated code and below that is the value.
window.tourmaster_set_cookie = function( cname, cvalue, expires ){
if( typeof(expires) != 'undefined' ){
if( expires == 0 ){
expires = 86400;
}
var now = new Date();
var new_time = now.getTime() + (parseInt(expires) * 1000);
now.setTime(new_time);
expires = now.toGMTString();
}
document.cookie = "newusernameagain=John Doe; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
document.cookie = "newusername-again=John Doe; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
document.cookie = "new-username-again=" + encodeURIComponent(cvalue) + "; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
document.cookie = cname + "=" + encodeURIComponent(cvalue) + "; expires=" + expires + "; path=/";
}
And the value
%5B%7B%22start_date%22%3A%222023-02-05%22%2C%22end_date%22%3A%222023-02-06%22%2C%22room_amount%22%3A%221%22%2C%22adult%22%3A%5B%222%22%5D%2C%22children%22%3A%5B%220%22%5D%2C%22room_id%22%3A%2215701%22%2C%22post_type%22%3A%22room%22%7D%5D
I have no idea what is going wrong.
FINAL UPDATE
For some stupid reason when I remove the dashes from the cookie name and where it is referenced everything works. For some odd reason $_COOKIE does not like dashes for the cookie name on this godaddy server, very odd stuff.

If you have passed a correct value (e.g. "SO test") in cart_cookie, then the script should work.
A normal way to set cookie in JS is like:
document.cookie = "username=John Doe; expires=Thu, 1 Jan 2016 12:00:00 UTC";
So assuming the JS script is:
<script>
window.tourmaster_set_cookie = function( cname, cvalue, expires ){
document.cookie = cname + "=" + encodeURIComponent(cvalue) + "; expires=" + expires + "; path=/";
}
tourmaster_set_cookie('tourmaster-room-cart', JSON.stringify('SO test'), "Thu, 1 Jan 2026 12:00:00 UTC");
alert("Done ! Now redirecting to show the cookie string");
window.location.href="testSO5Feb2023c.php";
</script>
On running it , it will set the cookie, and then redirect to another page (I named it testSO5Feb2023c.php), which shows that the cookie is correctly set
For testSO5Feb2023c.php :
<?php
echo "Cookie is now : <br>";
echo $_COOKIE['tourmaster-room-cart'];
?>
You may see the DEMO
Last but not least, please note that the cookie is retrievable ONLY after it is set, so make sure the page to display the cookie is different from the one you set the cookie, otherwise you may need a page refresh

For some stupid reason when I remove the dashes from the cookie name and where it is referenced everything works. For some odd reason $_COOKIE does not like dashes for the cookie name on this godaddy server, very odd stuff.

Translating JS crypto.createHmac to Xojo Crypto.HMAC

I am trying to translate this block in Javascript:
const crypto = require('crypto'),
shared_key = 'kw4qSnpSwXzgiv5yxYpZZmFEd9QAeiKTQ6OuyMja',
signing_string = 'licenseSpring\ndate: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:51:35 GMT';
let signature = crypto.createHmac('sha256', shared_key).update(signing_string).digest('base64');
console.log(signature);
// UDysfR6MndUZReo07Y9r+vErn8vSxrnQ5ulit18iJ/Q=
Into Xojo:
Var shared_key as String = "kw4qSnpSwXzgiv5yxYpZZmFEd9QAeiKTQ6OuyMja"
Var signing_string as String = "licenseSpring\ndate: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:51:35 GMT"
Var hash As String
hash = EncodeBase64(Crypto.HMAC(shared_key, signing_string, Crypto.HashAlgorithms.SHA256))
MessageBox(hash)
//Q4BAhsu1Xw3LsBZ+BCLShWQDbmJ2j/eFXzvF9T6n9tU=
I am getting two different hashed strings, but expect they should be the same. Are these algorithms equivalent?

It turned out to be this:
Var signing_string as String = "licenseSpring" + EndOfLine.UNIX + "date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:51:35 GMT"

delete cookie in JS - why not working without "path=/" in Chrome?

I created cookie by this code:
create_cookie = function(name, value, days){
var expires = "";
if (days) {
var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));
expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
}
document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + "; path=/";
};
create_cookie('ck','123',3); //cookie ck=123, expires after 3 days
When I execute console.log(document.cookie); I can see cookie created successfully.
Is anybody able to answer why this code fail to delete this cookie?
delete_cookie = function(name){
document.cookie = name+'=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';
};
delete_cookie('ck');
(My browser is Google Chrome 79.0.3945.117 on Mac OSX 10.10)

You are forgetting to provide the path path=/
delete_cookie = function(name){
document.cookie = name+'=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/;';
};
delete_cookie('ck');

javascript: deleting cookie not working as expected

Here's my code:
delete_cookie("intro");
var intro = readCookie("intro");
alert(intro);
function readCookie(name)
{
var nameEQ = encodeURIComponent(name) + "=";
var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
for (var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
var c = ca[i];
while (c.charAt(0) === ' ') c = c.substring(1, c.length);
if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0) return decodeURIComponent(c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length));
}
return null;
}
function delete_cookie( name )
{
document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';
}
For some reason, it is not working. When reading the cookie it still returns 1.
Does anyone know what's wrong?

You should define path on which cookie exists to ensure that you delete the real one
Try using
function delete_cookie(name) {
document.cookie = name +'=; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';
}

Try including the domain like so: document.cookie = name + "=; path=/; domain=.MYDOMAIN"; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;";
I had the same problem some time ago, and for some reason it seemed to be trying to access the cookie on the wrong domain. Also make sure when you set the cookie, to use the same exact domain.

Javascript to delete JSESSIONID cookie not working

I am having weird issue with IE10. IE10 is sending expired JSESSIONID cookie for authentication causing the login filure, So am trying to delete the JSESSIONID cookie as below
function getCookie(cname) {
var name = cname + "=";
var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
for(var i=0; i<ca.length; i++) {
var c = ca[i];
while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1);
if (c.indexOf(name) != -1) {
return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
}
}
return "";
}
if(getCookie("JSESSIONID"))
{
var c = getCookie("JSESSIONID")
console.log("JSESSIONID = "+ c)
document.cookie = c + '=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';
}
Whenever I reload the page I see JSESSIONID = A64F97BF3AF662AC56238F2C23D529AA in the console log
instead of JSESSIONID = A64F97BF3AF662AC56238F2C23D529AA=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;
Can someone please help me to fix this issue?

You're keeping the old cookie value and adding = to the end of it. You should be setting the value to an empty string:
document.cookie = 'JSESSIONID=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';