Cookies and how to set them

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Currently I'm struggling a bit with setting cookies. I've tried several ways, but I'm stuck at the moment. Perhaps someone can shed some light here…

I tried the following:



$cookies['lang'] = new CHttpCookie('lang', $_GET['lang']);





After that (among other less likely ways):


Yii::app()->request->cookies['lang'] = new CHttpCookie('lang', $_GET['lang']);





Also:


$cookies = Yii::app()->request->getCookies();


$cookie = new CHttpCookie('lang', $_GET['lang']);


$cookies['lang']->add('lang', $cookie)

But no cookie…

Trying to figure out why, So looking at CCookieCollection->add() I put an additional throw in.



if($this->_initialized)


	$this->addCookie($cookie);


else


	throw new CException(Yii::t('yii','CCookieCollection not initialized.'));

And yes I get that exception. So it seems its not initialized. Not sure where to look anymore…

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// to send a cookie:


Yii::app()->request->cookies['lang']=new CHttpCookie('lang',$_GET['lang']);


// to read a cookie:


$cookie=Yii::app()->request->cookies['lang'];
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Thanks, finally found where I went wrong, was giving expire a relative timestamp, so cookie was deleted automatically by the browser… :-X



	$cookie = new CHttpCookie($name, $value);


	$cookie->expire = time()+60*60*24*180; 


	Yii::app()->request->cookies[$name] = $cookie;
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As conclusion to this discussion, I wrote a Wiki article about cookie management, where problems, like cookie expiration time are discussed.

BTW: Sorry, for reopening over two years old thread.