How do you set up use HttpOnly cookies in PHP

Question

How can I set the cookies in my PHP apps as HttpOnly cookies?

Answer 1

Note that PHP session cookies don't use httponly by default.

To do that:

$sess_name = session_name();
if (session_start()) {
    setcookie($sess_name, session_id(), null, '/', null, null, true);
}

A couple of items of note here:

• You have to call session_name() before session_start()
• This also sets the default path to '/', which is necessary for Opera but which PHP session cookies don't do by default either.