Re: Destroying cookies... not working

From: Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:07:44 +0000
Subject: Re: Destroying cookies... not working
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On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Sean Greenslade wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@earthlink.net> > wrote: >> The following did the trick... is there any reason I should not use it? >> >> $name="mysession"; >> setcookie($name); >> >> --Rick > Only if you're OCD, since the cookie is still technically there, just empty. > Without setting the expire arg, the browser will keep it until closed. What happens if you then use isset($_COOKIE['mysession'])? TBH, I don't know and don't have the time to experiment just now. However, this should return false if the cookie has been destroyed but if just set to null or an empty string via Rick's code I suspect it'd return true. -- Geoff

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