Cookies(3)

🍪 NAME

Cookies — like, the whole cookie situation, bestie 💖

This is a page from the Library Functions Manual (Cookies(3), if you're keeping track, which you should be 👑), and it's all about the cookie functions in LibCGI. Two of them. Both iconic. Let's go ✨

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🧁 Functions

Okay so here's the roster, fr fr:

• int cgi_add_cookie (const char *name, const char *value, const char *max_age, const char *path, const char *domain, const int secure) — Send a cookie to the client. 🍪📤
• char * cgi_cookie_value (const char *cookie_name) — Gets cookie value. 🕵️♀️✨

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📖 Function Documentation

🍪 int cgi_add_cookie (const char * name, const char * value, const char * max_age, const char * path, const char * domain, const int secure)

Send a cookie to the client. That's it, that's the job. Main character energy, honestly 💅

Parameters:

• name — Cookie name 🏷️
• value — Cookie value 🍬
• max_age — Cookie time life, in seconds. A value equal to 0 ( zero ) means to discard the cookie when the session is done. ⏳ (yes bestie, zero, like, gone when the session dips ✌️)
• path — Cookie path at the server 🛣️
• domain — Domain where cookie will work :) 🌐 (the original literally put a smiley there and honestly? we love that for them 🫶)
• secure — Secure or not 🔒

See also:

cgi_cookie_value 👀 (go read it, it's right below, you got this)

cgi_add_cookie('mycookie', 'mycookie value', 0, 0, 0, 0);

^^ that's the vibe. all the zeros, no notes. 💖

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🔍 char* cgi_cookie_value (const char * cookie_name)

Gets cookie value. Like cgi_param(), cgi_cookie_value() returns the data contained in cookie_name cookie 🍪➡️✨

Parameters:

• cookie_name — Cookie name to get the value 🏷️

Returns:

• The cookie value 🎀 (that's it. that's the return. slay.)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! you read all of it, periodt 👑

this little gem came from LibCGI, dated 13 Mar 2003, and it's filed under Cookies(3) — go forth and set some cookies responsibly, mwah 💅💖