cookie problem

I am having a problem with the cookies
this is my code

setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $cookie_expire,
"/" , $cookie_domain, 0);

this is my error

Warning: setcookie() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in /website/login/mysql/login/loggedin.php on line 22

using php 4.2.1 with Register_globals on

Which value has $cookie_expire?

what values have you assigned to the arguments? it looks like the $cookie_expire argument has been wrongly set. it should look something like:

time()+3600

3600 being the number of seconds in an hour.
Alternatively set the expiry to:

...(that's zero)... to set the cookie to expire when the user's browser has been shut down.

I hope this solves it!