setcookie("user", "", time()-3600) not working

Question

I tried to use setcookie("user", "", time()-3600) to delete a cookie from php, but it's not working for me, when I check in the tool of the broswer, the cookie seems to still exist. Does anyone know why?

note: this is the domain cookies.. mean I set this cookies with this way setcookie('user','true',time() + 2592000,"/",".user.com",0);

Answer 1

Try setcookie ('user', "", time() - 3600, "/", ".user.com", 1);
Just a warning- IE and opera sometimes maintain cookie values until after restart- that may be part of the issue.

Answer 2

According to the PHP documentation, your code should work properly, though, you could try this:

setcookie("user", "", time() - 3600, "/", ".user.com", 0);

Answer 3

are you refreshing the page and browsing around a bit before checking? See if you can still read the cookie with php, as that's the "important" thing (whether the tool thinks the cookie is there isn't as important). :D