Cookie expires on session out in Codeigniter

Question

I am setting a cookie in my codeigniter application using the following code. Working fine .. but cookie get expires on session out.. Please help

$cookie = array(
        'name'   => 'tvcUsername',
        'value'  => $email,
        'expire' => time()+86500,
        'domain' => 'http://localhost/tvc',
        'path'   => '/',
        'prefix' => '',

    );

    $this->input->set_cookie($cookie);

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Two things I can think of:

a) localhost is not a valid domain, so cookies won't be saved for all browsers. Create yourself a HOST for "my.dev.server" or "localhost.dev" and point to 127.0.0.1 (you may also need to configure apache to respond to that name - but try it first just changing the HOSTS file first)

b) In addition, your "domain" includes a scheme and a path - that might be causing problems? Set to "localhost.dev" (drop the "http://" and the "/tvc" parts - once you've moved away from localhost.