PHP Documentation - #39994 [NEW]: setcookie docs don't say what to pass to expires to get a session cooki

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#39994 [NEW]: setcookie docs don't say what to pass to expires to get a session cooki

jason191 at herkamire dot com

2006-12-31, 4:06 am

From: jason191 at herkamire dot com
Operating system:
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: setcookie docs don't say what to pass to expires to get a session cookie

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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