#39994 [Opn]: setcookie() docs don't say what to pass in "expire" to get a session cookie

ID: 39994 User updated by: jason191 at herkamire dot com -Summary: setcookie docs don't say what to pass to expires to get a session cookie Reported By: jason191 at herkamire dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: cleaned up bug title Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-31 04:25:37] jason191 at herkamire dot com 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39994&edit=1