note 105738 added to function.setcookie

I have been tearing my hair out wondering why a cookie would not delete. Despite countless discussions of reasons this can happen all over the internet, none of them addresses my case. Here is what was happening: My cookies have been formed kindof as an array, and the name of the cookie to be deleted is being passed in a variable, so I was using this to attempt to delete the cookie (stripped to the minimum for simplicity of the example): <?php setcookie("$cookiename[id]"); ?> But it simply would not work. Ultimately what DID work was this: <?php setcookie($cookiename."[id]"); ?> So I had to concatenate the variable to the "element id" and then the cookies deleted without any issue. I hope this saves someone else from a sleepless night!! Jonathan ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 76.102.118.206 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/105738 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105738 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/105738 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php