I have a form on page 1:

I want this information to be held in a persistent way so that even if a user subsequently logs in (to joomla in this case) the cookie data is persistent and can be called. That is why i have used cookies rather than sessions in this case. Correct me if this is not the right way of doing this.

I have some code to set and retrieve the cookie on page 2:

But the cookie data is not appearing on the second page when it loads after form submit. If I refresh the second page the data appears in the right places, i.e. where I have called it with e.g.

How to get the cookie data available immediately on page 2?