Remove a cookie

Question

When I want to remove a Cookie I try

unset($_COOKIE[\'hello\']);

I see in my cookie browser from firefox that the cookie still exists. How

Answer 1

I had the same problem in my code and found that it was a cookie path issue. Check out this stack overflow post: Can't delete php set cookie

I had set the cookie using a path value of "/", but didn't have any path value when I tried to clear it, so it didn't clear. So here is an example of what worked:

Setting the cookie:

$cookiePath = "/";
$cookieExpire = time()+(60*60*24);//one day -> seconds*minutes*hours
setcookie("CookieName",$cookieValue,$cookieExpire,$cookiePath);

Clearing the cookie:

setcookie("cookieName","", time()-3600, $cookiePath);
unset ($_COOKIE['cookieName']);

Hope that helps.