Question

On one page I have something like this

setcookie('user', 'value' ,6000, '/', 'mydomain.co.uk');

On the subsequent page I have

var_dump($_COOKIE);

I can see all the automatically generated ones, like PHPSESSID but I cannot see user.

If I do echo setcookie('user', 'value' ,6000, '/', 'mydomain.co.uk'); it returns true. So I’m not sure why I can’t see it.

I have tried a lot of different ideas, but nothing has worked. Also, I have using .htaccess to redirect all requests via one page index.php not sure if this is doing anything.

Answer 1

Try this:

setcookie('user', 'value' ,time() + 6000, '/', 'mydomain.co.uk');

The expires Parameter needs to be a timestamp. 6000 as a timestamp is in the past and therefore removes the cookie.