Re: Cookies--getting chocolate in my peanut butter (and vice versa)

Apologies--using 1.3.5

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:28 AM, cricket <zijn.digital@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:57 AM, cricket <zijn.digital@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have two plugins, Comments and Poll. Both have a component, and each
>> of those components uses CookieComponent. They also both handle Cookie
>> settings in startup(). Unfortunately, it appears that they're sharing
>> the same component instance, as the 'poll' cookie is being re-named to
>> 'comments'.
>>
>> I've checked, and the original controller using the plugins does not
>> use Cookie directly. However, AppController does. But there doesn't
>> appear to be any issue there as I can see the default 'CAKEPHP' also.
>>
>> So, if each plugin can't have it's own separate cookie (much
>> preferred) it looks like I'll have to resort to using the default one
>> and using namespace/dot notation for the keys. But what if the app
>> itself doesn't use Cookie anywhere? Should each plugin component then
>> fall back to the name of the plugin?
>>
>
> Argh! So I commented out the parts where I assign a name to the
> cookie, going with CookieComponent's default 'CakeCookie'. My plugin
> components now use namespaces, 'Poll' and 'Comments'. eg.
>
> $this->Cookie->write('Poll.completed', serialize($this->_completed_polls));
>
> All fine, I can see 3 separate cookies (including Session's). However,
> this line:
>
> $this->_completed_polls = (array)
> unserialize($this->Cookie->read('Poll.completed'));
>
> gives me this grief:
>
> Notice (8): unserialize() [http://php.net/function.unserialize]: Error
> at offset 0 of 14 bytes
> [APP/plugins/poll/controllers/components/poll_handler.php, line 60]
>
> And $_completed_polls is empty. Same for the Comments plugin. I tried
> passing false to write() in case the encryption was somehow the issue.
> No cigar.
>
> Am I doing this wrong?
>

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