Question

I have set cookie and set it to expire after sufficient seconds. Still as soon as my session expires the cookie also expires. This is my code :-

   if(isset($_POST['KeepMesignedIn'])) {
                    $this->load->helper('cookie');
                    $cookie = array(
                            'name'   => 'info',
                            'value'  =>  $user->Username . '||' . $user->Password,
                            'expire' => time()+3600*24*30
                    );

                    set_cookie($cookie);
                }

Can anybody identify the problem?

Answer 1

According to the CodeIgniter documentation, set_cookie expects expires to be the delta seconds that are added to the current time:

The expiration is set in seconds, which will be added to the current time. Do not include the time, but rather only the number of seconds from now that you wish the cookie to be valid. If the expiration is set to zero the cookie will only last as long as the browser is open.