The cookie will only be available on the next request, when you receive the cookie you sent back with your response.

Xum said:

The cookie will only be available on the next request, when you receive the cookie you sent back with your response.

I would like to get the cookie in the current request and not the next one

Why not just pass $affiliate_id you got from request to the view?

Xum said:

Why not just pass $affiliate_id you got from request to the view?

The problem is that the $affiliate_id variable must not necessarily be used the first time the user visits the view. I am keeping it just in case the user visits that view later.

Well, use cookie value if it's set and fallback to Input::get('affiliate-id') if it's not. That way you'll have affiliate_id in your view on both the first visit and consequent ones.

Xum said:

Well, use cookie value if it's set and fallback to Input::get('affiliate-id') if it's not. That way you'll have affiliate_id in your view on both the first visit and consequent ones.

Thanks for your wise suggestions. I was looking for a method of getting the cookie without having to go through this.

To get a cookie set on current request use Cookie::queued('affiliate-id').