Trouble with PHP session_register and setcookie with MAMP

[JP1]

Hi
I am following the php tutorial in www.vtc.com.
Even if I set my Safari browser(since I’m using a MAC and therefore MAMP local hosting) to always accept cookies, I still have trouble using session_register or setcookie to work properly. E.g.
For the setcookie problem:

<? setcookie("my_colour_eyes", "green"); echo " Click here to go to the next page"; ?>

//Above is one file
//Below is the ‘read_from_cookie.php’

<? echo "My eyes are".$my_colour_eyes; ?>

But when I open the file in MAMP using Safari or Firefox I only get “My eyes are”
For the session_register function…when I use Firefox to open it, it doesn’t work properly as well.
Here is my code

<? session_start(); $my_favourite_colour="blue"; session_register("my_favourite_colour"); echo " Click here to go to the next page"; ?>

//Above is one file
//Below is the ‘show_session_var.php’ file

<? session_start(); echo "My favorite colour is: ".$my_favourite_colour; ?>

Am I missing something? I have also tried enabling register_global in the php.ini file, but that doesn’t seem to work either…plus ppl have advised against enabling that for security reasons…
Please help me go over this roadblock…thank you…

[Redscouse]

echo “My eyes are”.$my_colour_eyes;
should be:
echo “My eyes are”.$_COOKIE[‘my_colour_eyes’];

echo "My favorite colour is: ".$my_favourite_colour;
should be:
echo "My favorite colour is: ".$_SESSION[‘my_favourite_colour’];

and turn off globals, you shouldn’t have them on for security reasons