session_set_cookie_params

Hi,

I've read the official manual on session handling, as well as the section in
"PHP Developer's Cookbook" (2/e, Hughes & Zmievski). But I still cannot
make a cookie persist across browser sessions -- very frustrating.

I use PHP 4.1.1 running as a CGI in Win32.

Here is a snippet:

======================
$lifetime = time() + 8600;

session_name('app');
session_start();
.....
session_set_cookie_params ($lifetime, '', '.site.com');
// session_get_cookie_params returns the expected values
.....
$_SESSION['userdata'] = $data;
// Browser, however, says the cookie is due to expire at the end of
session (and it does).
======================

What am I missing here? Thanks.


Also, BTW, I notice the above-mentioned book says session_set_cookie_params
returns o (failure) or 1 (success), but the official documentation says it
returns nothing (void). Is the book in error or is it describing an earlier
version?

Hank TT wrote:

> I've read the official manual on session handling, as well as the section in
> "PHP Developer's Cookbook" (2/e, Hughes & Zmievski). But I still cannot
> make a cookie persist across browser sessions -- very frustrating.
>
> I use PHP 4.1.1 running as a CGI in Win32.
>
> Here is a snippet:
>
> ======================
> $lifetime = time() + 8600;
>
> session_name('app');
> session_start();
> ....
> session_set_cookie_params ($lifetime, '', '.site.com');
> // session_get_cookie_params returns the expected values
> ....
> $_SESSION['userdata'] = $data;
> // Browser, however, says the cookie is due to expire at the end of
> session (and it does).
> ======================
>
> What am I missing here? Thanks.

Call session_set_cookie_params() before you call session_start().

You could also use:

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',$lifetime);

(before session_start() of course)

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