$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS : HELP ME UNDERSTAND

[John Lyons]

Ive got a Flash movie. It has 9 movie clips. Each movie clip contains a Photo of a Girl with 3 possible choices to rate (Hot, OK, Yuck!). When the user votes on a girl, I want to set a cookie  (one cookie  for each of the  9 movie clips)via the same php script I am calling when the user clicks a choice button:

on (release) {
     loadVariables("vote.php", this, "POST");
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at the moment, I have it set up so that only one cookie gets set no matter which poll is voted on. and if the user only votes on one poll then leaves; when they return then all polls show the results and the user can't vote anymore. This is not cool or optimal...and I really need some help to sort this out.

Heres the snip of PHP that I am using to set my cookie:

  // Set cookie so user can't vote again

   setcookie('hasVoted', 'yes', time() + (365 * 86400), "/");
}

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Now, when the movie loads...an onClipEvent handler is being used to call fetchPoll.php

This is the bit of code that brings in the cookies....

// If cookie says user has voted before...
if('yes' == $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['hasVoted']) {
   // Tell Flash movie
   print "&result=AlreadyVoted";
} else {
   // Otherwise return okay
   print "&result=Okay";
}

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NOw for my confusion. Or....here is where you can hopefully help me learn....

1. How do I make this work with setting one cookie per poll as opposed to one cookie for the whole movie?

2. How do I bring these multiple cookies back into Flash, check to see if a cookie has been set for each poll, and then do the appropriate action? (if cookie set=show results; but if cookie is not set=let user vote)

For a visual of whats going on, check here:
http://tst.iserve.ch/babes/babevote2.html

3. Can I set a variable in PHP like $myCookies = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS
and then echo it back to Flash with: &myCookieArray = $myCookies; or am I on the wrong track??

4. Once I get the variables back into Flash....how do I check to see if a cookie has been set for each poll? Should I use something like:
if (
myCookie Array[1] = hasVoted, poll_1.showResults;

??

Please help if you can...Im stumped and really want to learn this! By the way if this works out i will open the source files to whoever may be interested too.

Thanks for any efforts

John Lyons

[Flash-db]

Hey John,

I apologize for the delay in this response - but the message board was down for a couple days.  

Anyways I just checked the example and it looks like it's working well, and that you figured it out.

If you have any other problems let me know.

[John Lyons]

hey Jeff,
Thanks for the response...
unfortunately, my dumb ass still cant figure this out  .

The example that you see posted is woking with only one cookie for all nine polls.

My problem lies in reading in cookies for each of the 9 polls in the movie. I figured out how to set a cookie for each movie seperately by creating a variable for my cookie, but no luck getting that back in to Flash etc....

John