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How to set a cookie, remove a cookie and get the value of a cookie in PHP

PHP posted 3 months ago by christian

PHP cookie management is a good example of how incredibly badly designed PHP is:

Set a cookie that expires when browser is closed

Note that you most probably want to set the path, which we do here: 

   1  $value = 0;
   2  $expires = 0;
   3  setcookie('cookie_name', $value, $expires, '/');

Remove cookie

   1  setcookie ('cookie_name', FALSE, time()-10000);

Get cookie value

   1  $_COOKIE['cookie_name']

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