Re: cookies

Hi Jon, Dealing with expiry dates and cookies is often a PITA! Rasmus suggested a way around this a few weeks ago - here is a rehash of what he said: Do this: setcookie ('expiry', time ()); This call will have created a session cookie - this means that the session will expire when the browser closes the client. Now you have a cookie var called expiry that has the unix timestamp of when the user first accessed the site. Check this value when deciding to expire the user's session. ie. $timeout = 3600; // Set an expiry date of an hour if ($expiry + $timeout > time ()) { // handle that the cookie has expired } (Actually, you easily do this with sessions too.) HTH, --zak Jon Yaggie wrote: [...] > I have set up a user login so that it will assign a cookie for one > hour - setcookie("cookie_id", $id, time()+3600); > The manner in which i suse the expiration is copied form the manual but > i have actually tried several alteratives. The problem is the > expiration works perfectly locally (i am running apache 1.3 for windows) > but once i upload it (linux red hat 5.2 (why so old i dont know)/ apache > 1.3.19.) The expiration will not work on my browser(s) unless i > increase the expiration to +5000 or above. My client tests it using the > same version of IE i have and it will not set the cookie still at +5000 > for him. > Now i understand from browser to browser there can be differences but > why can i set a cookie for +200 locally but not for less than +5000 > uploaded when i am most certainly checking it with the same browser (IE > 5.5)