note 50557 deleted from function.setcookie by didou

Note Submitter: s.j.eggen (at) phys.uu.nl Reason: bad code ---- probably pretty useful trick I just figured out... how to _delete_ a cookie in PHP4: set_cookie($name, '', $exp, $path, $dom, $sec); // if you are deleting a session-id-cookie, use session_name() for $name // and session_get_cookie_params() to get $exp, $path, etc. how to _ignore_ a cookie in PHP4: unset($_COOKIE[$name]); This is useful because sometimes you just want to ignore a cookie, not delete it. In this case you just use the second snippet -- the cookie will not be deleted. Sometimes you want to delete a cookie _and_ ignore it from that moment on in your code -- not the next time the code runs. In that case you use both snippets.