Cookie expires at end of session

[T.Taylor]

I am using a session to store user info and a cookie to store their
username. When the user returns to the site I would like the username
to be loaded from the cookie but it expires as soon as you close the
browser. How can I stop the cookie from expiring when the browser
closes?

setcookie($cookiename,$cookievalue,time()+(60*60*2 4*90),$cookiepath,$cookiedomain);

Thanks in advance.

[petersprc]

Hi,

Setting the expiration time should do it. May want to double-check the
cookie path and domain.

You could also check if the client is overriding this behavior. For
example, Firefox has an option called "Keep Cookies until I close
Firefox" (Tools -Options -Privacy -Cookies) which could interfere
with this.

T.Taylor wrote:

I am using a session to store user info and a cookie to store their
username. When the user returns to the site I would like the username
to be loaded from the cookie but it expires as soon as you close the
browser. How can I stop the cookie from expiring when the browser
closes?

setcookie($cookiename,$cookievalue,time()+(60*60*2 4*90),$cookiepath,$cookiedomain);

Thanks in advance.