Getting cookies expiration date and time?

[gardnern]

Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Getting cookies expiration date and time?

I noticed that Message-ID:
<1123709116.702 018.21690@z14g2 000cwz.googlegr oups.com> from gardnern
contained the following:
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>Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
>I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
>max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
>think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
>where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?[/color]

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.session-get-cookie-params.php

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[Andy Hassall]

Re: Getting cookies expiration date and time?

On 10 Aug 2005 14:25:16 -0700, "gardnern" <nathan@factory 8.com> wrote:
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>Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
>I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
>max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
>think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
>where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?[/color]

Cookie expiry time isn't sent to the server, so you cannot get this from PHP.

It doesn't even appear to be available to Javascript on the client side:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

You could always set another cookie storing the expiry time of the first
cookie...

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