Re: What does setcookie return?

Hi Jeffery, true means, that the http-header with the cookie was sent successfully. What the browser does with it - nobody knows. You could only check, if the user has turned cookie on, if you try to read the cookie on the next page. Martin Jeffery Cann wrote: > Greetings. > > I assumed (it's not specified in the PHP manual) that if a cookie is > successfully set, then setcookie() returns 1 (int). This seems to hold > true. Then, I turned off cookies in my Netscape 4.72 (Linux) and tried > to call setcookie(). It appears that I set the cookie and setcookie() > returned 1. > > What's the deal? I expect that if I cannot set a cookie, setcookie() > would return FALSE (i.e., int zero). > > BTW - my test case (PHP 4.0.0 -- './configure' '--with-apache=../apache' > '--with-interbase=/opt/interbase' ) > > <?php > $i = setcookie("TestCookie", "TestValue"); > echo "setcookie returned [$i]"; > ?> > > Thanks > Jeff > > -- > Protect On-Line Free Speech! > http://www.eff.org/support/joineff.html > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net