PHP - Cookie Expiration

Hello,

I am having trouble setting a cookie with a future expiration. I am using PHP Version 5.1.6.

Here is my code:

$expire = time() + 60*60*24*30; // 30 days
setcookie("TestCookie",$value, $expire);

The cookie gets set, however, the cookie is not persistent and expires when I close my browser. This should not be the case but should expire in 30 days.

The time() is correct on the server.

Here is the raw http headers:

Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date:   Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:12:27 GMT   
Server:   Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)   
X-Powered-By:   PHP/5.1.6   
Set-Cookie:   TestCookie=my+cookie+value; expires=Mon, 25-Apr-2011 15:12:27 GMT   
Content-Length:   126   
Connection:   close   
Content-Type:   text/html; charset=UTF-8

However, when I open Firefox or Chrome they both say that the cookie will expire when I close the browser. I know that my browser is accepting cookies properly because I see other cookies from other websites in the cookie list that expire with future dates.

I've tried setting a cookie in the future with javascript and it works fine, like the following:

$jsExpire = date("D, j M Y H:i:s e", $expire);
echo "
<script>
<!--//
document.cookie =
'jscookie=testcookie; expires=$jsExpire; path=/'
//--></script>
";

However, when still trying to set the cookie (before headers are sent which is how php operates), php fails to set the cookie properly.

Is there any kind of setting in php ini that could effect cookie expiration dates?

Obviously it's not a browser problem since I can set cookies correctly with javascript but not php.

I even tried sending cookie with header() like this and it doesn't set in the futu

header("Set-Cookie: TestCookie=my+cookie+value; expires=Mon, 25-Apr-2011 17:26:45 GMT; path=/; domain=.mydomain.com");

Any help appreciated.

is there anyway to prevent a sessions from expiring to soon.   I believe they are 20 minute sessions, correct.  Even if they are not 20 min. is there a way to prevent it from happening?

Hi everyone,   My googling seems to have found an way to add x days to the current date, and I'm sure that finding x days from a date pulled from my database must be pretty similar, but I just can't seem to get it working.   My task involves teachers setting notifications which are displayed for a number of days designated by the teacher.   So when the teacher creates the notiication, the `notificatin_date` field is updated with the timestamp.  The `notification_duration` field is an integer between 1 and 21.   I can get this info out of the database without problem:

$notification_set  = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($notification['notification_date']));
			   $notification_duration = $notification['notification_duration'];
			   echo $notification_duration . "<br/>";
			     echo  $notification_set . "<br/>";

However, when I try and add the duration to the date when the notification was set, to echo the expiry date, I run in to problems. This is what I've got at the current time, but I'm obviously not 'adding' $notification_duration and $notification_set correctly in the first line below, which is causing all my problems. Any help is much appreciated.

	$expiration_date = $notification_set + strtotime($notification_duration . "days");
			   
			   if ($expiration_date> date)
			   {
				echo "Your notification will expire on ";   
			   }
			   else if ($expiration_date < date)
			   {
				echo "Your notification expired on ";   
			   }
			   else echo "Your notification expires today ";
			   
			   
			   echo   date('jS', strtotime($expiration_date));
			echo " of ";
	echo date('F', strtotime($expiration_date));
				echo ", ";
	echo date('Y', strtotime($expiration_date));   

Thanks for your time, Dave          

Is it possible to make curl set the expiration date on cookies?

I don't see that the expiration date has been set using the ordinary settings, and I have a problem with a forum using the expiration date to see if the session has expired.

I have a payment form with the following code...

Code: [Select]
<!-- Expiration Month -->
<span class="group">
<label class="innerlabel" for="expMonth">Month</label><!-- -->
<select id="expMonth" name="expMonth">
<option></option>
<option>01</option>
<option>02</option>
<option>03</option>
<option>04</option>
<option>05</option>
<option>06</option>
<option>07</option>
<option>08</option>
<option>09</option>
<option>10</option>
<option>11</option>
<option>12</option>
</select>
</span>

How is that data represented as far as Data-Type?? 

Is it treated as a String or an Integer??

How can I ensure that when I sent it to the Payment Gateway that it is treated as a Two-Digit value??

Thanks,



Debbie