Store array within Cookie

Question

It is possible to store a array within a Cookie?

I’m trying this way:

$carrinho = array(array('frete' => '', 'mercados' => array()));

Cookie::queue('carrinho', $carrinho, 525600);

But the error returns to me:

Argument 2 passed to Symfony Component Httpfoundation Cookie::__Construct() must be of the type string or null, array Given, called in /var/www/html/seusuper/vendor/Laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cookie/Cookiejar.php

That same array works normal if I try to store in a Session.

I’m using the Laravel 5.6

Answer 1

It is not easier to use the session?

session(array('frete' => '', 'mercados' => array()));

I believe it is even the most appropriate for the situation, since the Cookie has some limitations in relation to the data you can put in it, especially in relation to the size of the stored data.

Answer 2

One of the ways to solve the problem would be to serialize the array.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php

With the value as string you could already put in the cookie.