How to connect user with a login cookie in PHP?

Question

First of all, I am testing on localhost. I have this index.php file which contains the following \"remember me\" checkbox:

Answer 1

reason behind your code is not working is

  setcookie("rememberme", $email . "," . $key, $timenow); // this is getting expire exactly at same time when it is set

replace it with

 setcookie("rememberme", $email . "," . $key, time() * 3600);//expire after 1hour