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

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: ------------ 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 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39994&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39994&r=mysqlcfg