Hello all,

I have been using cookies quite succesfully until I got to this point. The script has a button for 'Save Settings', associated with a textfield called 'spcSaveName'. When this button is clicked the script is re-opened and new info is displayed. The cookie part of the script has: 
$spcName = $query->cookie(-name=>'spcName', -value=>$query->param('spc
+SaveName'));
print $query->header(-cookie=>[$spcName]);

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at the top. Straight after this I test the values with: 
print $query->param('spcSaveName');
print $spcName;
print $query->cookie(-name=>'spcName');

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When I click Save the first time $query->cookie(-name=>'spcName') has no value. If I click 'Back' and 'Save Settings' again, then the cookie value is correct?
Any ideas why this only works after the second click? Also, if you are wondering if there is any other code there that might be affecting the cookie creation, there's not. I even commented out everything else, just in case.
Thank you.

In reply to Cookie value not getting set by amulcahy

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