Cookies that won't delete :-(

[jc94062]

I have a very very simple file...

<?
//logout
setcookie ('membercookie');
echo "Logged Out";
?>

Now, if I execute this in public_html, it deletes my cookie and prints "Logged Out",
Great...

Now, if I try to execute this in public_html/any_other_directory
it prints "Logged Out", but doesn't delete the cookie!

Could anyone tell me why, and more importantly a way around it, its driving me crazy!!!

[kennethl]

Have a look at this, from the spec for HTTP Cookies:

Set-Cookie: NAME=VALUE; expires=DATE;
path=PATH; domain=DOMAIN_NAME; secure

path=PATH
The path attribute is used to specify the subset of URLs in a domain for which the cookie is valid. If a cookie has already passed domain matching, then the pathname component of the URL is compared with the path attribute, and if there is a match, the cookie is considered valid and is sent along with the URL request. The path "/foo" would match "/foobar" and "/foo/bar.html". The path "/" is the most general path.
If the path is not specified, it as assumed to be the same path as the document being described by the header which contains the cookie.

[jc94062]

Well I looked at that and went to www.php.net but it won't work...

Heres the setcookie code (new)

setcookie ('membercookie', "$username", '/');

But it doesn't seem to work.
Incidently, I can read the cookie find from puclic_html/any_other_folder... just not delete it.

[jc94062]

time()-600 sorts it.

Thanks