How to set a cookie in php

Cookies in PHP can be set using the setcookie() function. This must appear before the HTML tag.

Syntax:

Setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain);

Example: here, the cookie name sample is assigned a value jim. The cookie expires after an hour.

Setcookie("example", "qsn", time()+3600);

Retrieving cookie value:

The cookie that is set can be retrieved as shown below:

Echo $_cookie
["user"”];

Isset() function can be used to find if the cookie is set.