Re: Cookie -> Delete -> Reset

It makes no sense to delete and set. Simply setting it will override the previous. Note also that using such a short expiry time puts you at the mercy of people having the system clocks set correctly. Many people don't. For short expiry cookies, I always do something like: setcookie('user',$user.':'.time()+1500,0,'/','.test.serve.co.uk'); That is, put the timestamp in the value field. This timestamp is relative to the system clock on *my* server instead of the remote machine. Then to figure out it the cookie should actually be expired do: list($usr,$ti) = explode(':',$user); if($ti>time()) { ... do whatever you do when a cookie is expired ... } -Rasmus On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Abe Asghar wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I wonder if U can help... > > I have the following code that reads a cookie and deletes it and then resets a cookie of the > same name. However all it seems to do is delete the cookie and not set a new one. Any ideas what I > am missing? > > > $user = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["user"]; > > setcookie("user"); > > setcookie("user","$user",time()+1500,"/",".test.serve.co.uk",0); > > > Thanks in advance, > Abe >