Creating a cookie
A cookie can be created using the setcookie function in PHP.
setcookie($name, $value, $expire, $path, $domain, $secure)
- $name – name of the cookie.
- $value – value of the cookie.
- $expire – time when the cookie will expire.
- $path – path on the server where cookie will be available.
If the path is set to “/”, the cookie will be available through out the whole site.
If no path is given, cookie in created under the current directory. - $domain – domain where cookie will be available. Instead of path you can use domain settings.
- $secure – true if cookie is being set over a secure “https” server, false otherwise, Default value is false.
setcookie(“username”, “john”, time()+(60*60*24*365); // this cookies last for one year
Retrieving a cookie
echo $_COOKIE["username"]; //return “john”
Deleting a cookie
To delete cookies, just set the cookie to expire in the past date
setcookie(“username”, “john”, time()-(60*60*24*365));
