Getting cookies to stop expiring

[Nate]

Hi I was wondering if someone can tell me if i'm doing anything wrong here...

     SetCookie("scart",$newcartid);

That will get set and will be usable on every page until I close my browser. Then if i return to the site the cookie is gone. I thought if you didn't give the cookie an expiration date that it would never expire?

I'm using internet explorer 6.

Thanks

[Mordecai]

No, not setting the expiration means that it will expire once the browser is closed. This can also be achieved by setting the expiration to a past date.

If you want it to last indefinitely, you'll have to set it for a date far into the future. For instance:
setcookie("scart", $newcartid, time() + 3652460*60);

This will set it for a year into the future, which I doubt people will keep it for.

[Nate]

Thanks... That makes sense. I wonder if this was recently changed though. In earlier versions of PHP i don't remember having to do that.