记住我的cookie

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to handle this situation. I have the following line for logging in a user however with this situation the remember post parameter might not be set upon form submission so i'd still like it to send 0 as its value with this function.

if ($this->kowauth->login($this->input->post('username'), $this->input->post('password'),
                            $this->input->post('remember'))) {}

Here's the form element:

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['xtrcook']))
{
    echo form_label((form_checkbox('remember', '1', TRUE)) . 'Remember Me!', 'remember');
}
else
{
     echo form_label((form_checkbox('remember', '1', FALSE)) . 'Remember Me!', 'remember');
}
?>

Although drew010 had a good answer its not the route I want to go with this so I'm asking if anyone else have any ideas?

Answer 1

Your question isn't really clear. If the 'remember' parameter isn't set to 1, you know that your user doesn't want to be remembered, so you don't extend the life of their cookie.

In your controller you can easily revert to a default value by using something like this:

$remember = ($this->input->post('remember') == 1) ? 1 : 0;

If they click the checkbox, it'll send 1 as the $remember value, if they don't a default value of 0 is used for the variable instead.