Deleting Cookies

[Anon]

How do you delete cookies in php??
I tried to set it with a second ahead, at expired ten miutes, no value everything i could think of.

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you can't "delete" cookies, you can only set them with an expire-date that is over-due immediately.

Check the annotations in the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

[Anon]

Hi Omaga,

you can try this....

when you initially created the cookie, you used this line -
setcookie("name", "value", "expiration");

To delete the cookie you would code -
setcookie("name", "");

alternatively you can add -
setcookie("name", "", time()-60);

This sets the expiration date that is in the past.

You can assign the cookie deletion function to execute upon a user hitting a "reset" button for instance.

Hope this helps

-Abi

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Check the annotations in the manual, the time() method does not always work.