How To Set A Cookie
What’s a cookie you ask?
Cookies are little pieces of text that are sent to a user’s Web browser. Cookies can help you create shopping carts, user communities, and personalized sites. It’s not recommended that you store sensitive data in a cookie, but you can store a unique id string that will match a user with the data held securely in a database.
Enough with the boring stuff here is how to set a cookie using the setcookie()
command.
This following line is an example of a cookie called id with a value of 55sds809892jjsj2. This particular cookie will expire in four hours(the current time plus 14,400 seconds), adn it is valid for any page below the document root on the domain yourdomain.com
setcookie("id", "55sds809892jjsj2", time()+14400, "/", ".yourdomain.com", 0
);
Time sheet, the following is a short list of how long you can set a cookie.
time()+60 One minute from the current time
time()+900 15 minutes ""
time()+1800 30 ""
time()+3600 One hour ""
time()+14400 Four hours ""
time()+43200 12 ""
time()+86400 24 ""
time()+259200 Three days ""
time()+604800 One Week ""
time()+2592000 30 days ""
That’s all for now
I hope it has been a useful article