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Apr 07.2004

hello there

I was wondering whether it is possible to set a cookie indefinitely?

I looked at the setcookie() API and the expiration parameter is a Unix timestamp.

Is there a way to send a cookie to the browser which will stay there forever (unless the user deletes it) ?

thanks in advance

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@shimonApr 08.2004 — As far as I remember, there's no real directive to set an indefinite cookie, but you could always just set it to expire just a _very_ long time in the future, say 20 years or something

Oh btw if you're doing that - this happened to me once, there is a limit to the size of the number that you pass as that time parameter. I dont know what the limit is, but if you find yourself setting to cookie to expire at time()+9999999999999999999 and it doesn't get set at all, it maybe worth reducing the number to something a bit smaller. I lost a couple of hours' progress over that once :-/
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