Example
A 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 params
Description:
- 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
pathanddomainmatches) as the superglobal$_COOKIEis not populated with the new data immediately.
