[RESOLVED] How to use session_destroy()

reddrum

Hi,
I dont understand why I cant destroy the session cookie after I call session_destroy(). I tryed the below code and I still get a session id from the cookie.
Any help would be most appreciated!

<?php
   $name = session_name();
   session_start('$name');
   $_SESSION = array();
   session_destroy();
   setcookie ("PHPSESSID", "", (time()-90000));
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
</head>

<body>
<?php
   $test = $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'];
   $id = session_id();
   echo $id."<br />";
   echo $test;
?>
</body>

</html>

Weedpacket

   $test = $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'];

$_COOKIE contains a list of the cookies that were sent to this page in the request; not the list of cookies that will be sent back to the browser in this page's response.
Like the manual page for [man]setcookie[/man] says:

Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for.

reddrum

I guess what I dont understand is why does the cookie exist after,

setcookie ("PHPSESSID", "", (time()-90000));

and after the page has been reloaded?
Any outher cookie would be destroyed after "setcookie ("cookie_name", "", (time()-90000));", but not the session id cookie.

reddrum

Thanks Weedpacket,
I found my answer, its in the php.ini file.