Symfony2 Cookie Problems when trying to get the cookie

Question

I'm having difficulties in managing Cookies in Symfony2.

All my data is manipulated in an Controller used as service for another Controller (I have tested outside this controller and I have the same issue).

I use the followings:

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;

To set a Cookie, I use Cookie() and Response()

public function indexAction()
{

    $cookie     = new Cookie('mycookie', 'myvalue' );
    $response   = new Response();
    $response->headers->setCookie( $cookie );
    $response->send();

    return $this->render('MyBundle:Default:default.html.twig', array());

}

All is ok here, I can view the Cookie dumping a $_COOKIE var and I can see it using various browser plugins. But the problem is that I cannot read/get it.

I tried 2 methods, none of them were successful.

public function readAction()
{

    // Method 1
    $request = new Request;
    $cookies = $request->cookies;
    var_dump( $cookies->get('mycookie') );

    // Method 2
    $response = new Response();
    $cookies = $response->headers->getCookies();
    var_dump($cookies);

    // Return My Response

}

Any ideas what am I doing wrong here? To be noticed that I am just starting using Symfony2.

Answer 1

You are creating new Request & Response object instead of using pre-initialized ones. Try in this way,

public function readAction(Request $request) // <-- Notice the change
{

    // Method 1
    $cookies = $request->cookies;
    var_dump( $cookies->get('mycookie') );

    // Method 2
    $response = $this->getResponse();         // <-- Notice the change
    $cookies = $response->headers->getCookies();
    var_dump($cookies);

    // Return My Response

}