Getting cookies expiration date and time?

[gardnern]

Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?

[Geoff Berrow]

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Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function...kie-params.php

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[Andy Hassall]

On 10 Aug 2005 14:25:16 -0700, "gardnern" <na****@factory8.com> wrote:

Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie?
I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes
max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont
think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue
where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?

Cookie expiry time isn't sent to the server, so you cannot get this from PHP.

It doesn't even appear to be available to Javascript on the client side:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

You could always set another cookie storing the expiry time of the first
cookie...

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