php使cookie为空,php setcookie时value为null或空字符串，会删除此cookie

长久以来，在php中删除cookie的时候，都是使用

bool setcookie ( string $name [, string $value [, int $expire = 0 [, string $path [, string $domain [, bool $secure = false [, bool $httponly = false ]]]]]] )

$value 随便写， $expire设置为一个已经过去的时间即可。

官方文档中也是这样写的：

Example #2 setcookie() delete example

When deleting a cookie you should assure that the expiration date is in the past, to trigger the removal mechanism in your browser. Examples follow how to delete cookies sent in previous example:

// set the expiration date to one hour ago

setcookie ("TestCookie", "", time() - 3600);

setcookie ("TestCookie", "", time() - 3600, "/~rasmus/", "example.com", 1);

?>

今天遇到一件奇怪的事， 在setcookie的时候，传了一个空字符串给$value，结果竟然是此cookie被删除了…

$name = "post_url";

$value = "";

setcookie($name, $value, time()+60*60*3, "/" );

delete_cookie

相当不解。

去翻php 5.4.13 的源码：

ext/standard/head.c

173 PHP_FUNCTION(setcookie)

174 {

175 char *name, *value = NULL, *path = NULL, *domain = NULL;

176 long expires = 0;

177 zend_bool secure = 0, httponly = 0;

178 int name_len, value_len = 0, path_len = 0, domain_len = 0;

179

180 if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "s|slssbb", &name,

181 &name_len, &value, &value_len, &expires, &path,

182 &path_len, &domain, &domain_len, &secure, &httponly) == FAILURE) {

183 return;

184 }

185

186 if (php_setcookie(name, name_len, value, value_len, expires, path, path_len, domain, domain_len, secure, 1, httponly TSRMLS_CC) == SUCCESS) {

187 RETVAL_TRUE;

188 } else {

189 RETVAL_FALSE;

190 }

191 }

76 PHPAPI int php_setcookie(char *name, int name_len, char *value, int value_len, time_t expires, char *path, int path_len, char *domain, int domain_len, int secure, int url_encode, int httponly TSRMLS_DC)

77 {

78 char *cookie, *encoded_value = NULL;

79 int len=sizeof("Set-Cookie: ");

80 char *dt;

81 sapi_header_line ctr = {0};

82 int result;

83

84 if (name && strpbrk(name, "=,; \t\r\n\013\014") != NULL) { /* man isspace for \013 and \014 */

85 zend_error( E_WARNING, "Cookie names cannot contain any of the following '=,; \\t\\r\\n\\013\\014'" );

86 return FAILURE;

87 }

88

89 if (!url_encode && value && strpbrk(value, ",; \t\r\n\013\014") != NULL) { /* man isspace for \013 and \014 */

90 zend_error( E_WARNING, "Cookie values cannot contain any of the following ',; \\t\\r\\n\\013\\014'" );

91 return FAILURE;

92 }

93

94 len += name_len;

95 if (value && url_encode) {

96 int encoded_value_len;

97

98 encoded_value = php_url_encode(value, value_len, &encoded_value_len);

99 len += encoded_value_len;

100 } else if ( value ) {

101 encoded_value = estrdup(value);

102 len += value_len;

103 }

104 if (path) {

105 len += path_len;

106 }

107 if (domain) {

108 len += domain_len;

109 }

110

111 cookie = emalloc(len + 100);

112

113 if (value && value_len == 0) {

114 /*

115 * MSIE doesn't delete a cookie when you set it to a null value

116 * so in order to force cookies to be deleted, even on MSIE, we

117 * pick an expiry date in the past

118 */

119 dt = php_format_date("D, d-M-Y H:i:s T", sizeof("D, d-M-Y H:i:s T")-1, 1, 0 TSRMLS_CC);

120 snprintf(cookie, len + 100, "Set-Cookie: %s=deleted; expires=%s", name, dt);

121 efree(dt);

122 } else {

123 snprintf(cookie, len + 100, "Set-Cookie: %s=%s", name, value ? encoded_value : "");

124 if (expires > 0) {

125 const char *p;

126 strlcat(cookie, "; expires=", len + 100);

127 dt = php_format_date("D, d-M-Y H:i:s T", sizeof("D, d-M-Y H:i:s T")-1, expires, 0 TSRMLS_CC);

128 /* check to make sure that the year does not exceed 4 digits in length */

129 p = zend_memrchr(dt, '-', strlen(dt));

130 if (!p || *(p + 5) != ' ') {

参数中的value在C语言中的类型是char * ， 还有一个 value_len标明了它的长度。

如果value_len为0的话，就写了下面的cookie:

值为”deleted”, 过期时间为 Thu, 01-Jan-1970 08:00:01 CST 或者说是 Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT

看来setcookie($name, “”) 确实可以删除这个cookie了…

同理，在php中，strval(NULL) === “” , 所以 setcookie($name, NULL) 也就相当于 setcookie($name, “”)，同样可以删除此cookie.

另外，比较好奇的是：

if (value && value_len == 0) {

}

else {

}

else 中包含了 value 为null 的情况, 这是一种什么样的情况呢？