How to set a session cookie with a path?

[John Drako]

I need to set a session cookie (expires when the browser closes) with a
path of "/".

Is there a way to do it?

I tried:

setcookie("cook ie_name", $cookie_value, "", "/");

and

setcookie("cook ie_name", $cookie_value, "0", "/");

and of course none of them worked.

I can't move the page that is setting the cookie to the top level
directory of the site, but I need the cookie to be available to couple
of page there.

Is this doable at all?

TIA

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: How to set a session cookie with a path?

John Drako wrote:

I tried:
>
setcookie("cook ie_name", $cookie_value, "", "/");
>
and
>
setcookie("cook ie_name", $cookie_value, "0", "/");
>
and of course none of them worked.
>

The manual says:

"Because the expire argument is integer, it cannot be skipped with an empty
string, use a zero (0) instead"

So, do not use "0" but 0.

When working between subdomains of the same father domain, you should also
supply the fifth argument with a value of ".yourdomain.co m" (mind the
preceding dot).


JW

[John Drako]

Re: How to set a session cookie with a path?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:29:10 -0400, Janwillem Borleffs wrote
(in article <44bfe793$0$767 23$dbd49001@new s.euronet.nl>):

John Drako wrote:

>I tried:
>>
>setcookie("coo kie_name", $cookie_value, "", "/");
>>
>and
>>
>setcookie("coo kie_name", $cookie_value, "0", "/");
>>
>and of course none of them worked.
>>

>
The manual says:
>
"Because the expire argument is integer, it cannot be skipped with an empty
string, use a zero (0) instead"
>
So, do not use "0" but 0.

Thanks. I don't know how I missed that.