Unable to access cookie set on same page after if statement

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I set a cookie inside php tag on top of the page:

   $cookie_name = "true";
   $cookie_value = "bla";
   setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, "/");
   echo $cookie_name;   // first

   if(isset($_COOKIE["true"]))
   echo $cookie_name;   // second

First echo seems to work fine but I can't echo the second one. It seems as if the if statement is not equaling to true. Can somebody clarify what is going on? I am new to cookies and trying this on localhost with url api.app.localhost.

asked 26 secs ago

Akriti Anand

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Unable to access cookie set on same page after if statement