Setting Cookie Using a Variable from the URL

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I need to hand code an affiliate link (we do not want to use an existing plugin). I do not do a lot of coding, so bear with me.

It seems so simple I have a link:
http://www.domain.com/?code=8765

Then I want to grab that code number and put it in a cookie. That way if a lead form goes in it can be passed through the API to SalesForce. Can anyone tell me why this isn’t working? If the id variable is set to a string it works fine.

Does this even make sense to accomplish this using this method?

add_action( 'init', 'set_agent_cookie' );

function set_agent_cookie() {
    $name="agent";
    $id = $_GET['code'];
       setcookie( $name, $id, time() + 3600, "https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/", COOKIE_DOMAIN );
}

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