note 27157 deleted from function.setcookie by john

thx phippsj, with so many posts on this subject, everything authors come up with is: "use the path parameter and make it '/' " but nobody gives a reason. The path paramater is optional indeed but the cookie is set with path-info about where it was created. I created a cookie in mydomain/login/login.php and tried to read it in mydomain/index.php and that really does not work if you do not use e.g. path='/'. b.t.w. I do not know php.net procedures but is it not time that the manual is updated by some php experts on basis of all the info above . . would save a lot of reading. (Sorry, I am a newbie but spent a lot of time trying to find the essentials here). Benny. (using IE6, php4 under Win-Apache (localhost) and FreeBSD-Apache (server))