why cant i create cookies in Firefox?

Question

I cant create a firefox cookie with following line:

    setcookie("TestCookie", $value, time()+3600, "/", "localhost");

does someone know why? i have checked the settings in FF and it accepts cookies from 3rd parties and are deleted when they expire.

EDIT: i can create now with this line:

$domain = ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'localhost') ? $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] : false;
setcookie('cookiename', 'data', time()+60*60*24*365, '/', $domain, false);

but how do i delete it?

i tried with just switching the + to - but it didnt work.

$domain = ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'localhost') ? $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] : false;
setcookie('cookiename', 'data', time()-60*60*24*365, '/', $domain, false);

Answer 1

Is "/" a valid path? Have you tried "/foo/"?

Answer 2

It's been awhile since I worked with localhost cookies, but according to the comments in the PHP manual, 'localhost' is an invalid value for the domain parameter.

To set a cookie on localhost, use false instead. Example:

setcookie("TestCookie", $value, time()+3600, "/", false);

See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php#73107