Sessions and Cookies

[crr_gm]

I am having a hard time getting sessions and cookies to work as I would expect.  I am using codelobster editor/debugger and wampserver. 

My problem is that when I try to delete a cookie it shows that the cookie is still there and active.

 

<?PHP

session_start();

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Qatar');

// I try to delete the previous cookie which was set

setcookie('my_session',"",time()-3600);

// here I have a function that sets a cookie

log_session("username","password");

session_destroy();

?>

 

When I check the local variables in the debugger they are still there and not deleted and have the same value.

Is my logic wrong or is it my system?

 

[zenlord]

Did you read the 'common pitfalls' on the setcookie-page?

 

Things I can think of:

* If you set or delete a cookie, it is visible when the page is reloaded - do you reload your page before checking?

* You use single and double quotes together

* Try explicitly setting the value of the cookie to 'false' - no need to set the time in the past, that is something that is done internally by PHP