Read classic ASP's cookies with PHP - php

Question

How do I obtain the asp cookie's name and value using PHP so i may assign it to a variable? PHP and ASP are on the same domain.
Classic Asp Create Cookie
response.cookies("apple")("red")="reddelicious"
response.cookies("apple")("yellow")="gingergold"
response.cookies("apple")("green")="grannysmith"
response.cookies("apple").expires = dateadd("d",2,Now())
Classic ASP Read Cookie
strRed = request.cookies("apple")("red")
strYellow = request.cookies("apple")("yellow")
strGreen = request.cookies("apple")("green")
Reading The ASP cookies with PHP echo
echo $_COOKIE["apple"];
In firebug, after expanding the 'apple' cookie within the console, 'echo $_COOKIE["apple"]' outputs:
red=reddelicious&yellow=gingergold&green=grannysmith
Tried:
$strRed = $_COOKIE["apple"]["red"]; //doesn't work

Answer 1

You could use the parse_str function in php
<?php
parse_str($_COOKIE["apple"], $apple);
echo($apple["red"]);
?>

Answer 2

To get the string red=reddelicious&yellow=gingergold&green=grannysmith to the format of a multi dimensional array try this:
$itemArray = explode('&', $_COOKIE['apple']); // Split variables at '&'
foreach($itemArray as $item){ // for each variable pair 'key=value'
$itemParts = explode('=', $item); // split string to '[key, value]'
$apple[$itemParts[0]] = $itemParts[1]; // set each item to $apple[key] = value;
}
Then you can use the variable like this:
$strRed = $apple["red"]; //should work :)