cookies

[wittanthony]

Does anybody here know how to create a cookie that doesn't expire? I have read the manual and can set cookies but they keep expireing and deleting themselfs on me.

[dalecosp]

Hmmm, don't you just set them with no expiry date?

setcookie("MyCookie", "this is a cookie");
echo "$_COOKIE['MyCookie'];
//prints "this is a cookie"

You might make sure you're not overwriting your cookies (for example, by setting a cookie of the same name each time the page is reloaded...)

HTH,

[foofoobar]

looks to me like you aren't setting the time on the cookie and as a result, it only lasts as long as the session. You need to set a time on it for it to last longer. For instance, in the script I built below, I first detected the current year, month and day and just tacked an extra year onto it.

$yr=(strftime("%Y"))+1;
$mn=(strftime("%m"));
$day=(strftime("%d"));
setcookie("cookie",$user['email'],mktime(0,0,0,$mn,$day,$yr),"/");

This makes the cookie last a year.

[superwormy]

www.php.net/setcookie

You need to set it with an expiration date far in the future, you can't just make them never expire

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by superwormy
www.php.net/setcookie

You need to set it with an expiration date far in the future, you can't just make them never expire

Gee, what was I smoking that day??? 😃