Problem retreiving cookie

I am writing a new php page and need to determine which user is logged in from the cookie ´usercookie[username]´ . I am using the following code:

<?php
$currentuser = $_COOKIE["usercookie[username]"];
?>

But it returns nothing, any ideas, is it something to do with the square brackets that are within the cookie name?

Thanks in advance.

 

$_COOKIE ['usercookie'] ?

 

I know its wierd but that is the name of the cookie when I view it in firefox thats is name

usercookie[username]

 

try to print all your variable content to see what's inside :

print_r($_COOKIE);

 

Try this,

$currentuser = $_COOKIE["usercookie['username']"];

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If it doesn't work, then I think you will have to get it with two steps. ie

$usercookie = $_COOKIE['usercookie'];
$username = $usercookie['username'];

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