Cookies

[MDeveloper]

I am using a cookie for my login page

for set the cookie:
setcookie("user",$value,time()+10000);

for check the cookie
if( !empty($_COOKIE[user]) )
check my db and ect ....

let say all of this code is in a file named "Login.php" and for logout I have a link In another file like this :
<a href='login.php?loguot=<?=$username?>'><?=$username?>[logaout]</a>

and in login.php
if( !empty($_GET[logout]) )
setcookie("user");

But the problem is this logout doesn't work!

What is wrong?
thanks.

[LordShryku]

Does that url even spit out your variables? Looks like you wrote it in html, so you may need to echo them to the url. Also, I'm not sure about the spelling. You may have logout spelled wrong in it

[MDeveloper]

Well, I was in harry and I wrote some things wrong.

Now this is my "log out" link:

 <a href = "..\\login\\login.php?user=<?=$username?>">Logout[<?=$username?>]</a>

and this is the code for log out:

    if(!empty($_GET[user]))
	{ 
		session_destroy();
		setcookie("user");
		header("location:..\index.php");
	}

I don't know what is wrong?

[dp777]

I had a similar problem a while back and what worked for me might work for you. after your session_destory() try switching your setcookie() to this: setcookie("user"," ",time()-3600);

[Hafkas]

In order to kill a cookie you need to set the cookie's expiration date in the past.

setcookie("user", $value, time()-1);

would probably work - note that you will have to forward the user to another page before the cookie actually dies on their system...

[MDeveloper]

Originally posted by Hafkas

note that you will have to forward the user to another page before the cookie actually dies on their system...

I think problem is here. I do forwarding the user

header("location:..\\index.php"); 

But in "index.php" I have a line that redirect to "login.php" :

 
 include("..\\login\\login.php");

It can be my fault?
thanks.