Using Cookies Set in ASP

<?php 
//This code Pulls information from a Cookie that was set by ASP with multiple values.
//The cookie name is Employee. HireDate, Security, Username, Enter, LastName, and FirstName
//are all variables stored in the cookie.
//cookies are set and handled differently by ASP so I wrote this to help people that use both languages be able
//to pull the info.
//ASP seperates the variables and their values using "&" so I explode the string into an array and split it at the "&".
//I then had to explode each of those array values at the "=" to get the raw values of each variable in the cookie.
//That is it, that is all I did. 
//Author: Jason Nelms
//Site: http://www.damnittohell.com
//Email: [email protected]

$Cookie = explode("&", $Employee, 6);
$HireDate1 = explode("=", $Cookie[0], 12);
$Security1 = explode("=", $Cookie[1], 12);
$username1 = explode("=", $Cookie[2], 12);
$Enter1 = explode("=", $Cookie[3], 12);
$lastname1 = explode("=", $Cookie[4], 12);
$firstname1 = explode("=", $Cookie[5], 12);

$hiredate = $HireDate1[1];
$security = $Security1[1];
$username = $username1[1];
$enter = $Enter1[1];
$lastname = $lastname1[1];
$firstname = $firstname1[1];
?>