Read and Write Cookie in Symfony2

Question

I want to store some information in the local browser cookie. After hours looking for a nice tutorial, I managed to store some data in a non-session cookie:

Answer 1

            use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;
            use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

            // set current active tab in cookie 
            $cookie = new Cookie('myProfileActiveTab', 'myaddress', strtotime('now + 60 minutes'));
            $response = new Response();
            $response->headers->setCookie($cookie);
            $response->send();


           // get current active tab from cookies
           $cookies = $request->cookies;
           if ($cookies->has('myProfileActiveTab')) {
               $activetab = $cookies->get('myProfileActiveTab');
           }