at index.php i have a form to fill out some settings. the form posts to setsettings.php

at setsettings.php it uses the form data and sets some cookies and redirect back to index.php. if i print_r($_COOKIE) at setsettings.php all is well. but nothing comes up at index.php, the $_COOKIE array is empty :(

Does somebody know how i go about solving this?

I set det setting by (setsettings.php):

/* Write new cookie */
$expire = 60 * 60 * 24 * 60 + time();  // ~2 months
setcookie("user_var_001", $_POST['selection'], $expire);

and in index.php print_r($_COOKIE) turns up blank;