Time till Midnight

[Pezmc]

I am trying to set a cookie that will expire at midnight, what is the easiest was to do this?

[suntra]

mktime()

[scrupul0us]

heres what u do

a) figure out what the time difference is between NOW and midnight and store it in a variable $tillmidnight

b) setcookie("NAME","VALUE", time() + $tillmidnight);

[Pezmc]

I know that but how do I get the variable?

[suntra]

setcookie('name', 'value', mktime(23, 59, 59));

Expires at 23:59:59 or 11:59:59 pm of today..

[scrupul0us]

well thats where the learning comes in... look into mktime() to see how to make a time stamp for midnight @ the current day... then subtract from that time() and youll have the difference

edit: or do it sun's way

[suntra]

The given time has to be the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970, and NOT the time difference between expiration and now...

[Installer]

This will set it to expire at midnight:

setcookie('name', 'value', strtotime('tomorrow midnight'));

[NogDog]

suntra wrote:

setcookie('name', 'value', mktime(23, 59, 59));

Expires at 23:59:59 or 11:59:59 pm of today..

Or to make it exactly midnight (in case that one second matters 😉 ):

setcookie('name', 'value', mktime(23, 59, 59) + 1);

[Installer]

setcookie('name', 'value', mktime(23, 59, 59) + 1);

Or:

setcookie('name', 'value', mktime(24, 0, 0));