Cookie Expiry Date

[Anon]

I am trying to set the expiry date of a cookie with the following

setcookie("Authenticate", "$fred1", time()[phone],"/");

I was hoping that it would set it for 1 year but it doesnt seem to be working, it seems to be about 2 weeks

How do i set the expiry date for 1 year or at least the maximum time possible

Any ideas

[Anon]

It has to be set in seconds.

1 year = a lot of seconds.

1 year also = 365.25 days, but to make it simpler, we do 365 days a year except every 4 years for a leap year. So just use 365 days

Okay, 60 secs per minute
3600 seconds per hour
86400 seconds per day
31536000 seconds per year

Hope that helps/works

[Anon]

You mean you can't use the date() function? The Netscape document on cookies (standard)
http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html says that for expire = date. so I was going to use date("Y")+1 for one year from today.

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R