PHP question

mconet posted this at 21:28 — 15th April 2000.

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I set a cookie such as:
<?php
setcookie("site_user", $Name, time() + 14000, "/");
setcookie("site_pass", $Password, time() + 140000, "/");
?>

I then present all of the content. Then I must give them an option of logging out. At that time I need the cookie to be erased/deleted/overwritten.

I have tried erasing the value and setting the time to negative.

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Anonymous posted this at 21:39 — 15th April 2000.

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A couple of things to realize about cookies which should answer your question:

1) They must be processed before any headers
2) They are taken care of in reverse order - thus, the last cookie listed will be the first to be taken care of.

So, I would recommend do the following on your "logout" page:

<?php
setcookie("site_user", "", time() + 14000, "/");
?>

That would make the cookie blank. I don't know if making it blank will do it or not - I am not sure if there is a way to delete a cookie or not.

Anyway, hope that helps out at least a little bit.

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Patrick Davis posted this at 00:51 — 17th April 2000.

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Joined: Apr 2000

I do something like this

<?
$logouttime=time()-9999;
//sets time to a time already passed, thus deleting the cookie
setcookie("Cookiename", "valuedoesn'tmatter", $logouttime, "/");
//cookie is now gone
?>

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