Re: Documentation for setcookie()?

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Erica Douglass wrote: > I was using PHP with some other people today, and one of them found out > that I had access to the manual to update it. He said he had experienced > the following problem: > > Their dev server was running an older version of PHP (4.0.x). Their > production server was running 4.2.x. He was using the following code to > delete a cookie: > > setcookie($name, $value, '/', '') This should be: setcookie($name, $value, 0, '/') iirc. > > He said that the behavior changed in two ways between 4.0.x and 4.2.x: > 1. Single quotes for setcookie() are no longer allowed. Single quotes are handled (almost) the same as double quotes. I really don't believe single quotes dont work any longer. > 2. Expiration date must be 0, not an empty string. The manual shows: boolean setcookie ( string name [, string value [, int expire [, string path [, string domain [, int secure]]]]]) the expire parameter is listed as an INT here, which means it's not a string. > I looked at the setcookie() documentation and it didn't seem to mention > this specifically. I'm not sure whether this needs to be added, since > I'm not familiar with setcookie() myself. Could someone comment on why > this changed and whether that should be added to the manual? It is possible that more aggresive checking for parameters came in to place, from the source I see that happened. Derick -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions --------------[ if you hold a unix shell to your ear, do you hear the c? ]-