NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Shiflett]

--- David Sklar <sklar at sklar.com> wrote:
> Note that many browsers won't deal well with an cookie whose
> expiration date is after January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07 A.M. UTC
> (that's an epoch timestamp of 2147483647) since they store cookie
> expiration time in a 32 bit signed integer. (The maximum positive
> value of a 32 bit signed int is 2147483647).
> 
> So, you may be better off with:
> 
> setcookie('myCookie',$val,2147483647);

That's a good point.

Also of note is that the cookie specification does not allow a cookie's
expiration date to be more than two years in the future, so a cookie should
never be allowed to persist for more than two years. I'm honestly not sure how
strictly this is implemented across the various browsers; maybe someone with
some free time can use David's code and test. :-)

Chris

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