title: Codeigniter can't read cookie set with Javascript
body: <p>I am trying without success to read a cookie in codeigniter that has been set in the browser with Javascript.</p>
  
  <p>The cookie is set in the browser as follows:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>// cookieContents is an array of integers
  strForCookie = JSON.stringify(cookieContents);
  date.setTime(date.getTime() + (2 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)); // 2 days
  $.cookie('savedPlaces', strForCookie, { expires: date });</code></pre>
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  <p>I have checked in the browser that the cookie is set properly.</p>
  
  <p>On the server I have the following codeigniter code in a controller:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$this-&gt;load-&gt;helper('cookie');
  $savedPlaces = $this-&gt;input-&gt;get_cookie('savedPlaces');
  if ($savedPlaces == false) echo("Cookie doesn't exist!");
  else echo("Cookie is: ".$savedPlaces);</code></pre>
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  <p>The controller function is called by the following html:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;a href="/browser/saved/"&gt;Saved searches&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>I have never used cookies before so suspect I am doing something fundamentally wrong. Can anyone illuminate me?</p>