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

For PHP's own session cookies on Apache:
add this to your Apache configuration or .htaccess

<IfModule php5_module>     php_flag session.cookie_httponly on </IfModule> 

This can also be set within a script, as long as it is called before session_start().

ini_set( 'session.cookie_httponly', 1 );