note 17528 added to function.setcookie
| From: | smclean at scoreinfo dot tv | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:34:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 17528 added to function.setcookie | ||
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The behavoir of setcookie changed between php 4.0 and php 4.1, though no documentation that comes
with 4.1 reflects this change.
Previously, with < 4.1, if you ran 'setcookie("cookiename","")' it
would delete the cookie named cookiename exactly as if you ran
'setcookie("cookiename")'.
With 4.1, when you run 'setcookie("cookiename","")', a cookie named
cookiename with a null value is set.
Paradoxically, if you run
'setcookie("cookiename","","","/","domain.com")'
the cookie matching the path and domain arguments is deleted.
Annoying incosistency, I wonder why they changed it.
I wish they would have documented this in the changelog, as it ended up breaking our login system
for 30 minutes or so while I debugged.
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