Creating Cookies in Codeigniter - php

Question

Well I have created sessions but having trouble implementing cookies in my website. In config file i have set $config['sess_expire_on_close'] = TRUE; so that user's session expires on closing browser.
Now what i want is, On login if user checks remember me ... all data should be stored in a cookie so that on closing browser, user is still logged on.
function login($email, $password, $loginas) {
if ($loginas == 'user') {
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->where('email', $email);
$this->db->where('password', $password);
$query = $this->db->get("user_info");
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
foreach ($query->result() as $rows) {
$newdata = array('id' => $rows->id,
'firstname' => $rows->firstname,
'lastname' => $rows->lastname,
'address' => $rows->address,
'city' => $rows->city,
'email' => $rows->email,
'phone' => $rows->phone,
'logged_in' => TRUE,
);
}
$this->session->set_userdata($newdata);
if ($rememberme == 'on') {
// create a cookie here with all data that i have put in session
}
return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
}
}
Does creating cookie automatically creates session? or we have put these data in session manually again?

Answer 1

In CodeIgniter, you can use set_cookie()
$cookie = array(
'name' => 'The Cookie Name',
'value' => 'The Value',
'expire' => '86500',
'domain' => '.example.com',
'path' => '/',
'prefix' => 'myprefix_',
'secure' => TRUE
);
$this->input->set_cookie($cookie);

Answer 2

First of all you need to load cookie helper
$this->load->helper('cookie');
Set your cookie
$cookie = array(
'name' => "cookieName",
'value' => array('id'=>$rows->id,
'firstname'=>$rows->firstname,
'lastname'=>$rows->lastname,
'address'=>$rows->address,
'city'=>$rows->city,
'email'=>$rows->email,
'phone'=>$rows->phone,
'logged_in'=>TRUE
) ,
'expire' => '86500',
);
Just pass your array into set cookie
$this->input->set_cookie($cookie);
And you can retrieve it using
$cookie['cookieName']['id'];
Also read manual