How to get cookie s expire time

Question

When I create a cookie  how to get cookie s expire time

User · Answer

You can set your cookie value containing expiry and get your expiry from cookie value.

// set
$expiry = time()+3600;
setcookie("mycookie", "mycookievalue|$expiry", $expiry);

// get
if (isset($_COOKIE["mycookie"])) {
  list($value, $expiry) = explode("|", $_COOKIE["mycookie"]);
}

// Remember, some two-way encryption would be more secure in this case. See: https://github.com/qeremy/Cryptee

User · Answer

It seems there s a list of all cookies sent to browser in array returned by php s headers list   which among other data returns  Set-Cookie  elements as follows   Set-Cookie  cooke name cookie value  expires expiration time  Max-Age age  path path  domain domain  This way you can also get deleted ones since their value is deleted   Set-Cookie  cooke name deleted  expires expiration time  Max-Age age  path path  domain domain  From there on it s easy to retrieve expiration time or age for particular cookie  Keep in mind though that this array is probably available only AFTER actual call to setcookie   has been made so it s valid for script that has already finished it s job  I haven t tested this in some other way s  since this worked just fine for me   This is rather old topic and I m not sure if this is valid for all php builds but I thought it might be helpfull   For more info see   https   www php net manual en function headers-list php https   www php net manual en function headers-sent php

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When you create a cookie via PHP die Default Value is 0  from the manual      If set to 0  or omitted  the cookie   will expire at the end of the session    when the browser closes    Otherwise you can set the cookies lifetime in seconds as the third parameter   http   www php net manual en function setcookie php  But if you mean to get the remaining lifetime of an already existing cookie  i fear that  is not possible  at least not in a direct way

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This is difficult to achieve  but the cookie expiration date can be set in another cookie  This cookie can then be read later to get the expiration date  Maybe there is a better way  but this is one of the methods to solve your problem

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To get cookies expire time  use this simple method    lt  php                 PART 1                expiration time  a b c d   lt - change D corresponding to number of days for cookie expiration  time   time    60 60 24 365    timeMemo    string  time     sets cookie with expiration time defined above setcookie  testCookie         timeMemo        time                   PART 2                this function will convert seconds to days  function secToDays  sec        return   sec   60   60   24        checks if cookie is set and prints out expiration time in days if isset   COOKIE  testCookie           echo  Cookie is set lt br   gt        if round secToDays  intval   COOKIE  testCookie    - time     1   lt  1           echo  Cookie will expire today         else          echo  Cookie will expire in     round secToDays  intval   COOKIE  testCookie    - time     1      day s            else      echo  not set              You need to keep Part 1 and Part 2 in different files  otherwise you will get the same expire date everytime

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Putting an encoded json inside the cookie is my favorite method  to get properly formated data out of a cookie  Try that    expiry   time     12345   data    object  array   value1    gt   just for fun    value2    gt   i ll save whatever I want here      cookieData    object  array   data    gt   data   expiry    gt   expiry    setcookie   cookiename   json encode   cookieData     expiry      then when you get your cookie next time    cookie   json decode    COOKIE   cookiename         you can simply extract the expiry time  which was inserted as data inside the cookie itself     expiry    cookie- gt expiry    and additionally the data which will come out as a usable object      data    cookie- gt data   value1    cookie- gt data- gt value1    etc  I find that to be a much neater way to use cookies  because you can nest as many small objects within other objects as you wish

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