setcookie()

[Anon]

When I use setcookie("name", "value"),
a temporary cookie is set instead of a permanant one. That is to say, it remembers the cookie until I close the browser. When I open the browser again, it forgets everything. Is there something else that needs to be done.?

[foxden]

from the manual:

int setcookie ( string name [, string value [, int expire [, string path [, string domain [, int secure]]]]])

The int expire is an integer expiration in unix time format. 3600 = 3600 minutes.

Hope this helps,
Josh

[foxden]

My appologies:

time()+3600 this would be 1 hour, time increments are in seconds and you need to use the time() function to create that.

[Anon]

Thanks for your response.
I've tried the time parameter, time()+3600. It stopped the cookie from working all together. But when I put 0, instead of time()+3600, it started working again, but with the same problem as before, which is it would only store the cookie temporarily.

[Anon]

I've discovered my problem.
It seems that setcookie(user, $userid, $exp) doesn't work for me. I don't know why exactly.

I had to use the setcookie command in the header for it to work.
It looks something like this:
$exp = time()+3600*12;
$date = gmstrftime("%A, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S", time()+$exp);
header("Set-Cookie: user=$userid; expires=$date GMT;\n\n");