Re: cannot remove cookies

Bruno Santos wrote: > Hello. > > I'm using 2 cookies to control some user environmente. > every time the user logs in, the cookie is set, but when i try to change > the value of that cookie, > deleting it firts and then setting a new one with another value, when i > print the value of that cookie > the value is never the new one, but always the firts. > > im setting the cookie with: > setcookie ("cookie_name",cookie_value,time()+time-to-expiration); > > when deleting it, i do > setcookie ("cookie_name"); > or > setcookie ("cookie_name","",time()-time-to-expiration); time-to-expiration may as well be something fixed and fairly large... this way you account for a computer's clock being off from the actual time. 3600 is good. I'm guessing that this is the cause of your problem... > > but it never works If this is a session cookie that you are trying to destroy then you should go ahead and destroy both the session as well as the cookie. > > the browser im testing it is firefox (linux) > but in IE is not working either... > > PHP version is PHP-5.0.3 > > Apache version is Apache-2.0.52 > > Cheers > > Bruno Santos > -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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