Delete Cookie (minor "bug")

[MathieuF]

So been doing the tutorial for a while now

and i noticed something small in the delete cookie tutorial, the cookie never gets "deleted" I've checked it with the debugger and if you solely use

setcookie("user", "", time() - 3600);

Nothing changes and the cookie still exists $_cookie still hold the the value (i've refreshed several times and even closed my browser)

 

But adding the line

 unset($_COOKIE['user']);

Does remove the cookie properly

[Ingolme]

Using setcookie() will not delete the cookie data from the current PHP execution, but it will sent data to the client telling the browser to mark the cookie as expired.

 

Also remember that calling setcookie() to delete a cookie will only work if all the parameters (except value and expires) are exactly the same as the ones used when the cookie was set.

[justsomeguy]

Also, because of how cookies work, if you call setcookie on a particular page to create a new cookie, that data will not be inside $_COOKIE. That's the same issue that you're seeing with deleting a cookie. Cookie data affects what happens on later pages, not the current page.

[MathieuF]

Ok thank you for the info:)