Setting a Cookie
suggest changeA cookie is set using the setcookie() function. Since cookies are part of the HTTP header, you must set any cookies before sending any output to the browser.
Example:
setcookie("user", "Tom", time() + 86400, "/"); // check syntax for function paramsDescription:
- Creates a cookie with name
user - (Optional) Value of the cookie is
Tom - (Optional) Cookie will expire in 1 day (86400 seconds)
- (Optional) Cookie is available throughout the whole website
/ - (Optional) Cookie is only sent over HTTPS
- (Optional) Cookie is not accessible to scripting languages such as JavaScript
A created or modified cookie can only be accessed on subsequent requests (where path and domain matches) as the superglobal $_COOKIEis not populated with the new data immediately.
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