Question

I’m having a cookie issue, the expiry date on my cookie is always being set to At End Of Session which isn’t what I want. I did a bit of goggling and it suggested it set the expire to time()+60*60*24*30 which I’ve done.

 //Create basket cookie
            $cookie = array(
                'name'   => 'basket_id',
                'value'  => $basket_id,
                'expire' => time()+60*60*24*30,
                'domain' => 'domain',
                'path'   => '/',
                'prefix' => '',
            );
            set_cookie($cookie);

I did wonder if it could be down to a Codeignter setting but my ci_session cookie has a normal expiry date. Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:39:02 GMT

This is what I get when I view the cookie:

 Name   basket_id
 Value  28
 Host   .host
 Path   /
 Secure No
 Expires    At End Of Session

And here is an example of the array I’m passing to the cookie.

Array ( [name] => basket_id [value] => 30 [expire] => 1310202067 [domain] => host [path] => / [prefix] => ) 

Answer 1

Please check out the answer below by @Gowri for how to do it properly.

You can try to adjust session expiration time in config.php CI session initially is saved in cookies:

/** Session Variables
 ---------------------------------------
| 'session_expiration'  = the number of SECONDS you want the session to last.
|  by default sessions last 7200 seconds (two hours).  Set to zero for no expiration.
|
*/

$config['sess_expiration']      = 7200;