Looking at the php documentation on setting a cookie I see that I can set an expiration date for the cookie. You can set the cookie to expire at the end of the browser session or at some time in the future but I do not see a way to set the cookie to never expire. Is this even possible and how is this accomplished?
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Never and forever are two words that I avoid using due to the unpredictability of life.
The latest time since 1 January 1970 that can be stored using a signed 32-bit integer is 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 (231-1 = 2,147,483,647 seconds after 1 January 1970). This limitation is known as the Year 2038 problem
setCookie("name", "value", strtotime("2038-01-19 03:14:07"));
You can set a far date from the date, the cookie is created like this:
var Cookie_expiry = new Date();
Cookie_expiry.setDate(Cookie_expiry.getDate()+10e5);
// expiry date of cookie is set to be practically infinite (~ 4000 years)
setCookie('token', 'token_value', {expires: Cookie_expiry});
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