note 105738 deleted from function.setcookie by cmb
| From: | cmb@php.net | Date: | Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:51:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 105738 deleted from function.setcookie by cmb | ||
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Note Submitter: vanclute at gmail dot com
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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