Re: Should I document session_get_cookie_params => setcookie?

"Christoph M. Becker" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.documentation.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02.06.2020 at 09:35, Peter Cowburn wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 02:58, Karoly Negyesi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I wanted to check from JavaScript whether a session was started but
>> the system sets the session cookie to httponly so I can't do that so I
>> wanted to do setcookie('has_session', 1, session_get_cookie_params()). This
>> of course (?) doesn't work. Should I add a code snippet on how to make it
>> work to session_get_cookie_params and / or setcookie or should I just
>> submit to Stackoverflow as a self answer?
>>
>
> Probably the latter.
>
>
>> I already added https://marc.info/?l=php-doc-cvs&m=159105012229429&w=2
>> because that's generic enough. Speaking of, should I amend the return
>> values of setcookie to include this null or just this commit is enough?
>>
>
> I'm not sure where the null is coming from.  The function should be
> returning false for the case you've described, right?

Actually, setcookie() is not supposed to fail if there are spurious
elements in the options array; see e.g. <https://3v4l.org/h4dWr>.

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