Get cookie expiration

Question

Is it possible to read cookie expiration time with php ? When I print_r($_COOKIE) it outputs:

Array
(
    [PHPSESSID] => 0afef6bac83a7db8abd9f87b         


        

Answer 1

Or you can use the function time() on the value of the cookie, that way you need only one cookie and can retrieve data. The php code would look like this:

setCookie('cookiename', time(), time() + 86400);

That way, you'll have the cookie expiring in one day, and by retrieving it's value you can discover when it'll expire with something like this:

86400 - (time() - $_COOKIE['cookiename']);