ID: 39994
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Summary: setcookie() docs don't say what to pass in "expire" to set
a session cookie
Reported By: jason191 at herkamire dot com
-Status: Open
+Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
-Assigned To:
+Assigned To: bjori
New Comment:
Quote from the setcookie() docs: "time()+60*60*24*30 will
set the cookie to expire in 30 days. If not set, the
cookie will expire at the end of the session (when the
browser closes)."
Note the "If not set" clause (which is essentially the
same as passing 0).
If you believe that sentence can be reworded any better
please share it with us :)
Previous Comments:
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[2007-01-07 20:04:50] jason191 at herkamire dot com
by "get" I meant "create" not "retrieve" sorry about the ambiguity
there
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[2007-01-07 19:59:47] jason191 at herkamire dot com
This is not a support request.
You might say that it's not "in PHP itself", but that's why I set the
category to "Documentation problem".
I apologize for my grammar, I was not trying to fetch the value of a
cookie, but create one.
I know what setcookie() does, except the API is not fully specified in
the documentation. The documentation should specify what value you can
pass to setcookie() to get a session cookie (rather than a cookie that
expires at a certain date) since it obviously can create session
cookies.
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[2007-01-07 13:06:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume
of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
for you.
Thank you for your interest in PHP.
setcookie() _sets_ cookies, it does not retrieve them.
Use the $_COOKIE autoglobal array.
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[2006-12-31 04:28:10] jason191 at herkamire dot com
cleaned up bug title
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[2006-12-31 04:25:37] jason191 at herkamire dot com
Description:
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The documentation for setcookie() here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
does not specify what value to pass to the "expire" parameter to get a
session cookie.
It does say that the default value is a session cookie, but doesn't say
how to get this result by passing a value.
This is important information for two reasons:
1) I wrote a function that calls setcookie() and has a parameter for
the length of time the cookie will last. I would like to be able to
inform users what value they can pass to get a session cookie.
2) Perhaps there is a way, but I don't know how to pass the parameters
after "expire" without setting the "expire parameter. I'm sure many
others don't know how either.
One of the user comments says that he was able to get a session cookie
by passing 0 (zero), but I do not know if this works across different
PHP versions.
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
- Jason Woofenden
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