April 23, 2012
Php cookie only set for 1 second?
Question by Jamie Hutber
Maybe there is a better way around having to use a cookie. But i want to set in my php something to tell the user an error but only have it come on once, if they refresh the page i do no want it there anymore.
$time = (1000);
setcookie("msgtype", $type, time() + ($time), '/');
setcookie("msg", $message, time() + ($time), '/');
print_r($_COOKIE);
So for some reason, if i output the $_cookie directly after it still won’t display this cookie.
Any ideas?
Answer by gopi1410
Instead, when showing the error clear the cookie, rather than having it set for 1 second, so that when it refreshes next time & checks for the cookie it won’t be there and so would not display any error.
Or a better option would be using sessions.
Answer by Starx
You dont need to use cookies for this, using SESSION sounds reasonable.
$_SESSION['error'] = 'soem message';
//Use it when you need and simply remove it afterwards
echo $_SESSION['error'];
unset($_SESSION['error']);
