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PHP - session_get_cookie_params() Function

Definition and Usage

Sessions or session handling is a way to make the data available across various pages of a web application. The session_get_cookie_params() is used to retrieve the session cookie parameters.

Syntax

session_get_cookie_params([$array]);

Parameters

This method doesn’t accept any parameters.

Return Values

This function returns an array which contains the current session cookie parameter values.

PHP Version

This function was first introduced in PHP Version 4 and works in all the later versions.

Example 1

Following example demonstrates the usage of the session_get_cookie_params() function.

<html>   
   <head>
      <title>Setting up a PHP session</title>
   </head>   
   <body>
      <?php  	
         //Setting the cookie parameters
         session_set_cookie_params(30 * 60, "/", "test", );
         
         //Retrieving the cookie parameters
         $res = session_get_cookie_params();
		 
         //Starting the session
         session_start();
		 
         print_r($res);	  
      ?>
   </body>   
</html>

One executing the above html file it will display the following message −

Array ( [lifetime] => 1800 [path] => /test [domain] => test.com [secure] => [httponly] => [samesite] => )

Example 2

This is another example of this function.

<html>   
   <head>
      <title>Setting up a PHP session</title>
   </head>   
   <body>
      <?php  
         //Retrieving the cookie parameters
         $currentCookieParams = session_get_cookie_params();
         
         //Setting the cookie parameters
         $domain = '.test.com';
         session_get_cookie_params(
            $currentCookieParams["lifetime"],
            $currentCookieParams["path"],
            $domain,
            $currentCookieParams["secure"],
            $currentCookieParams["httponly"]
         );
         //Starting the session
         session_start();
      ?>
   </body>   
</html>
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