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Cookie 3.1

Jan 20, 2020 C is for Cookies and Consent In this article, we’ll continue to look at the (in-progress) NetLearner application, which was generated using multiple ASP.NET Core web app project (3.1) templates. In previous releases, the template made it very easy for you to store cookies and display a cookie policy. Download the code or configure your cookie consent popup with just a few clicks and in less than 5 minutes.

  1. Cookie 18
  2. Food52
  3. Cookietins.com
  4. RFC 6265: HTTP State Management Mechanism

The Cookie Helper file contains functions that assist in working withcookies.

This helper is loaded using the following code:

3.1

The following functions are available:

set_cookie($name[, $value = '[, $expire = '[, $domain = '[, $path = '/'[, $prefix = '[, $secure = NULL[, $httponly = NULL]]]]]]])
Parameters:
  • $name (mixed) – Cookie name or associative array of all of the parameters available to this function
  • $value (string) – Cookie value
  • $expire (int) – Number of seconds until expiration
  • $domain (string) – Cookie domain (usually: .yourdomain.com)
  • $path (string) – Cookie path
  • $prefix (string) – Cookie name prefix
  • $secure (bool) – Whether to only send the cookie through HTTPS
  • $httponly (bool) – Whether to hide the cookie from JavaScript
Return type:

void

This helper function gives you friendlier syntax to set browsercookies. Refer to the Input Library fora description of its use, as this function is an alias forCI_Input::set_cookie().

get_cookie($index[, $xss_clean = NULL])
Parameters:
  • $index (string) – Cookie name
  • $xss_clean (bool) – Whether to apply XSS filtering to the returned value
Returns:

The cookie value or NULL if not found

Return type:

mixed

Cookie

Food52

This helper function gives you friendlier syntax to get browsercookies. Refer to the Input Library fordetailed description of its use, as this function acts verysimilarly to CI_Input::cookie(), except it will also prependthe $config['cookie_prefix'] that you might’ve set in yourapplication/config/config.php file.

delete_cookie($name[, $domain = '[, $path = '/'[, $prefix = ']]])

Cookietins.com

Parameters:
  • $name (string) – Cookie name
  • $domain (string) – Cookie domain (usually: .yourdomain.com)
  • $path (string) – Cookie path
  • $prefix (string) – Cookie name prefix
Return type:

void

RFC 6265: HTTP State Management Mechanism

Lets you delete a cookie. Unless you’ve set a custom path or othervalues, only the name of the cookie is needed.

This function is otherwise identical to set_cookie(), except that itdoes not have the value and expiration parameters. You can submit anarray of values in the first parameter or you can set discreteparameters.